When Every Day Could Be Your Last
May 20, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, May 16, 2019 Is it a good thing not to know the moment you’re going to die? Of course, some people do: patients
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.”
Spring to Attention!
May 4, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, May 2, 2019 While T.S. Eliot’s assertion that “April is the cruelest month” might be true in the Chicago area, May is quite
The Quest to Live (Almost) Forever
April 18, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, April 18, 2018 The arc of life is simple and inexorable: we are born, grow up, age and die. But what if we
A Library Story
April 4, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, April 4, 2019 Reflecting on it later, he decided it was wonderful happenstance, “pocketing the key of knowledge” in that way. It had
The Second Worst Sin
March 21, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, March 21, 2019 It would be interesting to hold a contest for the “next worst” sin. Surely, despite its curiously low ranking in
The Electoral College is a Broken System
March 8, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, March 7, 2019 Five times in our nation’s history, including twice in the last generation, the will of the people has been subverted
Zeno’s Plank
February 21, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 21, 2019 When I exercise doing planks, I pick out 60 seconds on the clock and start counting to myself. When I
Attention Must Be Paid
February 7, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 7, 2019 There’s a famous video on YouTube—blandly titled “Selective Attention Test”—of six college students passing basketballs to each other. Viewers are
How to Survive a Plane Crash
January 24, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 24, 2019 Almost 2 million Americans take to the skies every day. Flying is fast, efficient and safe, far safer than driving,