Steve Fiffer: Lightning Strikes Twice for Local Author
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 10, 2015 It has been a banner literary year for Evanston author Steve Fiffer. In a span of nine weeks his two
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!
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.”
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 10, 2015 It has been a banner literary year for Evanston author Steve Fiffer. In a span of nine weeks his two
Evanston RoundTable, July 16, 2015 Community orchestras can be a hit-and-miss affair, plagued by some of the same challenges that even professional orchestras face: deficit
In 1967 and ’68 I boarded with an English family while studying history at University College in London. But mostly I traveled. I started out hiking the city, miles and miles a day, for London, with its crazy-quilt streets and magnificent Victorian neighborhoods, was a walker’s paradise. After I had London mapped out I took the train to Manchester to romance a girl I had met the year before in New Orleans, and when that didn’t work out I widened the circle, first to Paris over a long weekend in the fall, then to Germany, Russia and Poland over the long winter break. Swapping traveling for classes was just fine with me, as long as my draft board and my parents didn’t find out. After all, I figured, there’s no better education than wandering free, meeting people and seeing the world.
In March I caught a cheap flight to Chicago to reconnect with my family and re-enroll at the University of Illinois, then flew back to London, packed a backpack, took a train to the south coast, and crossed the English Channel on a boat from New Haven to Dieppe, a four-hour, 90-mile crossing.
Important to measure, even more important to grow. It consists of good, even temperament (20%); abundant humor (20%); inclination to see the bright side (20%);
Journal of the American Viola Society, April 1998 Michael Tree, a founding member of and violist with the Guarneri Quartet, is one of the most
The smartest people I know are fierce conservatives. The most compassionate are bleeding-heart liberals. Where is the Solomon who can cleave them together?
Chicago Tribune, January 31, 2015 To the Editor: When I worked at Lerner Newspapers in the mid-’70s we put together a softball team and challenged
Evanston RoundTable, January 15, 2015 Marcus Campbell thinks schools “need to be redesigned fundamentally from the bottom up.” If he could wave a magic wand
Journal of the American Viola Society, July 1997 On 17 April Russian violist Yuri Bashmet performed the world premiere of a new viola concerto written