1968 Democratic Convention: There’s a Riot Going On
March 11, 2012
This is a chapter from my memoir, called Remember Me, written about the relationship I had with my best friend. There’s a Riot Going On
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 Stephen King’s “11/22/63”
March 11, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, March 16, 2012 What is it about Kennedy assassination that continues to fascinate and haunt the national psyche? There was the shock of
Saturdays With Milton
March 11, 2012
Milton Preves was my viola teacher during the mid- to late 1990s. At some point during our relationship, realizing what a treasure he was to
Hobi the Wonder Dog
March 11, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, August 3, 2011 Hobi, the Wonder Dog When Michelle Milne first met her Golden Retriever-Black Lab mix, in the spring of 2009, the
Northwestern’s Victor Yampolsky: A Life As Exciting As the Music
March 1, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, March 1, 2012 The conductor gives a sharp downbeat, and the orchestra of 60 responds as one, flooding the practice room at Northwestern’s
‘Red Tails’: A Story That ‘Needed To Be Told’
February 12, 2012
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 12, 2012 The back story of “Red Tails” is almost as interesting as the movie itself. For some time George Lucas, creator