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.”

Tour de Evanston

Evanston RoundTable, July 16, 2020 With its excellent bike lanes and trails, Evanston is an eminently bikeable city, through which I have been riding some

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Giving Thanks

Evanston RoundTable, July 1, 2020 Even in these terrible times of global pandemic, persistent and virulent racial inequities and a spiraling economy, it is good

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Some Lessons

Evanston RoundTable, May 20, 2020 They’re sprouting up like brightly colored tulips, the signs all over Evanston that read: “Thank You Health Care & Essential

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Conflicted

Evanston RoundTable, May 6, 2020 It’s always been my curse to see the other person’s point of view. I hate it. So apparently did Truman.

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The Confinement

Evanston RoundTable, April 30, 2020 In my lifetime and yours, there has never been anything like it. The longest I can remember staying in previously

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