Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights

With the death of Charles Kuralt, Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene inherits the mantle of America’s leading Cracker Barrel journalist — chronicler of Midwestern state fairs, bard of small-town front porches, troubadour of lifelong friendships and high school athletic events. But there’s a good deal more to his latest collection, Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights, than nostalgia: Many of these economical, gracefully written pieces lament what he calls ”the numb sloppiness that has taken over the fabric of American life.” B