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!
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.”
Evanston RoundTable, March 5, 2020 Award-winning author Charles Johnson returned to Evanston, where he was born and grew up, to address an appreciative audience at Fleetwood-Jourdain
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 23, 2020 At every stage of life, it is useful to step back and tote up the “important things,” the life lessons
DSCH Journal, January 2020 Letters to the Editor: As a first violinist in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1973, Victor Yampolsky had the
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 29, 2020 “Words, words, words. I’m so sick of words,” sang Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. That seems truer than ever
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 15, 2020 Some of my friends are expecting 2020 to be a difficult year. One of them told me she believes it
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 1, 2020 So far the weather has been mild: no sustained snowfall, no frightening ice storms, no polar vortex. It is downright
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 18, 2019 In my column of Nov. 14 (“Goodbye to All That”) I argued that the vast changes and trends that have
Harry Cawley was a veteran train man, a conductor for the North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, when the opportunity came along to try a different
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 14, 2019 “When you come to the end of one time and the beginning of a new one, it’s a period of