My weekend with Kurt Vonnegut
March 21, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, March 28, 2024 Can’t say I’ve hung out with too many icons. As a kid, I was introduced to Wilt Chamberlain in the
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.”
I remember Mom
March 8, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, March 6, 2024 The other night my grandmother came to me in a dream to talk about Helen, her middle daughter – my
Balancing act: New NU Dean of Music also composes and teaches
February 27, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 27, 2024 In the 1995 movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, Mr. Holland (played by Richard Dreyfus) has to “settle” for a career as
The heavy load of existence
January 25, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 25, 2024 I always imagined, growing up, that enlightenment would come to me (and everyone else) with age. By enlightenment I mean
Meet Ewoynne Warren, Evanston’s downtown StreetWise vendor
January 11, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 10, 2024 Ewoynne Warren says life is getting better. “I’ve turned myself around,” he told me in an interview arranged by the
Happy new year — hopefully
December 28, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 27, 2023 The human brain is a remarkable organ, often characterized as the most complex structure in the universe. We learn from
Madam President: An ETHS student may one day be the nation’s chief executive
December 14, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 13, 2023 A future president of the United States is taking classes right now at Evanston Township High School. She’s a junior,
Toots and the Brummie
December 1, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 30, 2023 Note: Some of this story is true, some is made up. See the end for clarification. In the spring of
Shostakovich in Evanston
November 9, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 8, 2023 Fifty years ago, in June 1973, the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich came to Evanston to receive an honorary degree