A half century of award-winning journalism, from best feature story of 1974 (Chicago Newspaper Guild) to more than half-a-dozen consecutive annual column and profile honors (Northern Illinois News Association).
Reporter’s Memoir Captures Dangerous, Illustrious Career
Evanston RoundTable, July 13, 2017 A great journalist has to be insatiably curious, passionately dedicated, and a terrific writer. Jeffrey Gettleman has all these talents in abundance, which is why
Ecclesiastes Got It Wrong
Evanston RoundTable, July 13, 2017 The Victorian writer George Saintsbury said Ecclesiastes was “the saddest and wisest book ever written.” Novelist Thomas Wolfe called it “the most powerful expression of
In Search of Lost Things
Evanston RoundTable, June 29, 2017 With apologies to Marcel Proust, this is not about madeleines or childhood memories. It is about losing things, things that inexplicably vanish when just a
The Mysteries of Existence
Evanston RoundTable, June 15, 2017 Modern science fools us into believing we can understand the world. Not so. Take mathematics, the supposed foundation of science and knowledge. Galileo thought “the
‘Relativity’: A Play Review
Evanston RoundTable, June 1, 2107 Albert Einstein advanced his two most famous theories, on special and general relativity, when he was a young man, and spent the rest of his
The Six Pillars
Evanston RoundTable, June 1, 2017 Evanston is Heavenston for most of us, the town where we love to live, work, play, and enjoy the many significant benefits and beauties the
Award-Winning Author Recalls Evanston Boyhood
Evanston RoundTable, May 18,2017 For Charles Johnson, Evanston was a great place to grow up. The multi-award-winning author and winner of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” was born in 1948 (“on
Shostakovich’s Fifth
Evanston RoundTable, May 4, 2017 Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler all wrote great Fifth Symphonies. Shostakovich’s was something else: a plea for redemption and a window to the terrorism that was
Michael Gibson Reflects on 42 Years with the Evanston Post Office
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 5, 2015 After more than four decades working in the Evanston Post Office, Michael Gibson, the steady and beloved fixture behind the window at 1929 Central St.,