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!

Lester Jacobson in black without glasses
The Dream Machine
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.”

Rough Times

Giving way to free-falling despair only leads to the abyss. And we’re not there yet. Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 30, 2020 Add the firestorm over the

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The Summer of Peaches

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 2, 2020 Amidst the spate of continuing bad news (COVID spiking! Russia hacking! Arctic melting!) and the continuing absence of any civility

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Look Around

Evanston RoundTable, March 18, 2020 Hey Bunkie. Are you stuck in existential despair? Terrified the end times are at hand? Certain the latest outrage from

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Hard Times

Evanston RoundTable, July 29, 2020 Such a shock to turn on the radio and hear: “I’m so afraid of goin’ out, and I’m so tired

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