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.”

POTUS for a Day

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 20, 2018 Imagine that the presidency, instead of being a four-year term, rotates among common citizens. Everyone gets to be the chief

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The Maltese Question

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 6, 2018 Are we tied implacably to our personalities or are we free to reinvent ourselves? That’s a question scientists, philosophers and

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The Art of Dying

Evanston RoundTable, June 28, 2018 Everything comes easier with practice, from skeet shooting to horseback riding to piano playing. It takes 10,000 hours, experts say,

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In the Year 2118

Evanston RoundTable, May 31, 2018 Among the gregarious and hilarious regulars at the men’s locker room at the McGaw YMCA, where we regularly consider the

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