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
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!
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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.”
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,
‘Green Book’ movie review
January 10, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 10, 2019 There are two ways to come at “Green Book,” the new biopic about Don Shirley, the renowned African American pianist
Lessons in Luck
January 10, 2019
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 10, 2019 Luck is usually considered to be random, inconstant and, well…lucky, something other people seem to have more of. “Success or
Pascal’s Wager Applied to Love
December 27, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 27, 2018 What if we could decide that betting on love is a good bet, a wager worth making? The 17th century
When Lenny Met Victor
December 14, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 13, 2018 In this centenary year of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, we rightly celebrate his genius as a conductor, composer, educator and pianist.
If You Love Movies, Take the Challenge!
November 30, 2018
“Movies are the most important artistic medium of the last century, where we learn how to love, fight, live and die.” Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 27,
My Faust Problem
November 16, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 15,2018 I’m obsessed with knowledge. I want to know everything. Well, not everything, of course, that’s impossible, but the big things: quantum