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
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.”
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
‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’: A Universe Apart
August 16, 2012
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
Byron Wilson: Evanston’s ‘Class Act’
July 19, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, July 19, 2012 When Byron Wilson moved to Evanston in 1930, there were no streetlights, the first dial telephone service had just been
‘Magic Mike’ Review: Magical Indeed
July 19, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, July 19, 2012 If you love good movies, thank Steven Soderbergh for saving your summer. Yes, the season that brings you, year after
Surviving a Nazi Firing Squad: Serge Ross’s Story
July 18, 2012
Every life is unique, of course, but the generation now rapidly passing from us – the so-called Greatest Generation, those born in the first part of
‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’: Checking Out
June 6, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, June 6, 2012 This seems to be the alta cocker feel-good movie of the year. A passel of British geezers on a tight
Why We Ride
April 27, 2012
Letter sent to sponsors after the 500-mile AIDS fundraising bike ride in 2002. There was a small sign above the tent with the jugs of