’12 Years a Slave’ and ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ – Hard History Lessons
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 5, 2013 It’s a rare synchronicity when two fine and provocative movies based on true stories about national horrors – “12 Years
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, Dec. 5, 2013 It’s a rare synchronicity when two fine and provocative movies based on true stories about national horrors – “12 Years
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 21, 2103 Evanston has always had a song in its heart and music in its soul. According to “The History of Evanston,”
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 7, 2013 By Les Jacobson Susan Trieschmann, the owner of Curt’s Café, has been awarded $10,000 by L’Oreal Paris as a “Woman
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 7, 2013 “Captain Phillips” tells the true story of Richard Phillips, the Merchant Marine officer whose U.S. cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama,
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 24, 2013 Legendary jazz pianist Junior Mance left his native Evanston more than half a century ago, but the last time he
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 10, 2013 The award-winning director and longtime Evanston resident Jonathan Wilson’s path into the theater world was unusual. In 1967 he was
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 10, 2013 “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…” “Mere” anarchy? Had William Butler Yeats
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 26, 2013 The great Zen puzzle of life is how to balance living in the moment, mindful and focused on now, versus
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 12, 2013 Call it “The Curse of Woody Allen.” Seemingly talented filmmakers are inspired to clone Allenesque characters whose neurotic, awkward, sometime