Review of “Les Misérables,” “Argo,” Anna Karenina,” and “Lincoln”
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
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, 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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
Evanston RoundTable, August 16, 2012 “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of