Advice to Ben
March 9, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, March 8, 2018 When our grandson Benjamin turned one, our daughter asked my wife and me to write a few words of advice
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.”
On the Road to Safer Gun Laws: Evanston Moms Help Pull Off Political Upset
March 9, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, March 8, 2018 The Evanston bus women helped make history. At least that’s how it seemed when they returned from Springfield Feb. 28
To Be Third
February 23, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 22, 2018 David Baskin grew up in Evanston and like a lot of kids who went to ETHS, got to know and
2 Cheers 4 Winter
February 9, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 8, 2018 How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. Aside from the cold, there is ice, slush, shoveling, chopping,
Solar Reflection
January 25, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 25, 2018 The sun winked out. Not from a passing cloud, not from a sudden storm, not from a rose-hued sunset. It
Shifting Gears
January 13, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 11, 2018 Funny the things we remember. I read once, as a kid, about a jet fighter pilot who was testing a
The Experience of Hunger
January 13, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 28, 2017 Americans have a fixation on eating and weight, and every year countless articles, books, and TV segments are churned out
My Eulogy
December 15, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 14, 2017 Welcome, everyone, thanks for coming. So glad you all could be here. Wish I could too! (Awkward pause.) It’s OK
Parable of the Glasses
December 1, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 30, 2017 There were two boys who were schoolmates and best friends. But they were very different. Bobby seemed to have it