A.I. ate my homework
December 2, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 1, 2021 The bots are coming. And not just over the horizon, people, but right now, right here, in your computer and
It is a vanity project and a writing closet, a treasure chest for news, views and reviews.
More prosaically, it provides a store house for my writing. Some of it is quirky – poems, sayings and asides. There are movie and book reviews, profiles and other articles from my past and present sojourn as a journalist. Plus my new book — The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past!
Novel
The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past
A thrilling, highly imaginative and tautly written journey back in time to find “the tool to unrule” a post-American fascism.
“Brilliant,” says National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson of “The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past.”
“A great tale, brilliantly told,” says violist and international recording artist Roger Chase. “There are surprises on every page, and the end, which comes only too soon, is a coda of marvelous drama, invention and imagination.”
Time to downsize the American empire: An interview with Northwestern historian Daniel Immerwahr
November 30, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 29, 2021 In the latest installment of its occasional opinion series, “Snap Out of It, America!” the New York Times on November
‘Inspiring’ music professor Victor Yampolsky begins last season teaching and conducting at NU
October 23, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 22, 2021 After more than four decades of conducting, Victor Yampolsky will soon be hanging up his baton. The distinguished maestro, the
To Make Something Beautiful
October 14, 2021
Sustaining one beautiful note is enough reason to play. One beautiful, outrageous, extraordinary, death-defying note, which like the butterfly’s flight can change the world. Evanston
Chasing the dream
October 3, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 1, 2021 My 12-year-old grandson Ben still calls every night so I can read to him. We’ve been doing this for five
The wind blows and we are alone together
September 15, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 15, 2021 I was your typical happy-go-lucky, clueless kid, content to play baseball and ride my bike and ignore the drearier aspects
Moonlight on the Buffalo
September 3, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 1, 2021 I grew up in New York, and I try to get back there at least once a year to see
Centennial Column
August 19, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 18, 2021 This was supposed to have been about my 100th column, a milestone worthy of some celebration and reflection. I started
High Focus
August 5, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 12, 2021 Failure is part of the human condition. To forgive oneself for failing is the first step toward succeeding. I’ll admit