Review of “Silver Linings Playbook”
January 20, 2013
Evanston RoundTable Jan. 17, 2013 There’s a line comedies can cross over, sometimes into stupidity, sometimes into cruelty. Either way it’s rarely amusing. Such is
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.”
Review of “Les Misérables,” “Argo,” Anna Karenina,” and “Lincoln”
January 6, 2013
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 3, 2013 Some of the year’s best movies, still playing at first-run theaters, are set in the past, which makes for a
Review of “Lincoln”
December 12, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 6, 2012 Steven Spielberg’s epic new biopic “Lincoln” opens on a panorama of Boschian horror, black and white soldiers hacking away at
Letter to the New York Times on Meeting Kurt Vonnegut
November 13, 2012
New York Times Book Review, Nov. 11, 2012 To the Editor: Kurt Andersen’s entertaining and rueful recollection of meeting Kurt Vonnegut called to mind my
‘The Sessions’: Courageous and Profound
November 8, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 8, 2012 Movies have come a long way on the topic of living with disabilities. In “An Affair to Remember,” released in 1957,
The Good You Can Do
October 25, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 25, 2012 In the wake of Dajae Coleman’s shooting death, there’s been a call for greater mentorship. Some people will wonder how they
Pinball Wizard Writes the Tunes, Also Beeps and Boops
October 12, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 11, 2012 Everyone of a certain age will remember the sprightly synthesizer tune that played as Mario scooted along in the wildly
Review of “The Intouchables”
September 27, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2012 Hospice training sometimes includes an exercise in which participants are asked to list the 10 activitites that give them the
“The Swerve” – A Joyful Ride Through Intellectual History
September 16, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 13, 2012 In the winter of 1417, Poggio Bracciolini set out for a remote mountain-top monastery to seek out a manuscript he