Award-Winning Author Recalls Evanston Boyhood
May 19, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, May 18,2017 For Charles Johnson, Evanston was a great place to grow up. The multi-award-winning author and winner of a MacArthur “Genius Grant”
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.”
Shostakovich’s Fifth
May 5, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, May 4, 2017 Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler all wrote great Fifth Symphonies. Shostakovich’s was something else: a plea for redemption and a window
Michael Gibson Reflects on 42 Years with the Evanston Post Office
May 4, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 5, 2015 After more than four decades working in the Evanston Post Office, Michael Gibson, the steady and beloved fixture behind the
Trash Busters
April 20, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, April 20, 2017 April 22 is Clean Up, Evanston! Day. It’s a worthy and necessary admonition because litter is, unfortunately, everywhere: on the
Bad Habits
April 7, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, April 6, 2017 We are all creatures of habit. Habits permeate our daily life, so much so that we don’t even realize the
Viola Lesson
March 23, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, March 23, 2017 “Hi, come in, nice to finally meet you,” Karen said at the door. “Let me take your coat.” I was
The Four E’s
March 12, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, March 9, 2017 Schools do a good job teaching the basics – history and civics and science and the famous Three R’s: reading,
Ode to Spring Unexpected
March 1, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 23, 2017
O to feel the sun beam down
And bestow on us its warming rays
When usually we wear a frown
That school is closed for more snow days.
Spring in February, such a gift,
It’s like Christmas in July.
Too bad a few are deeply miffed:
Global warning this implies.
Nonetheless, it’s fine to watch
Folks strolling in their shorts and Ts.
Let’s hoist a beer or maybe scotch
‘Cause it’s 70 when it should be 3!
Knowing History
March 1, 2017
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 23, 2017 How odd it is to be born in the middle of time. We learn from cosmology that the universe is