The year of living magically
June 11, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, June 11, 2025 “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all
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.”
The scourge of park litter
May 25, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, May 21, 2025 Taking advantage of the beautiful spring weather — sunny and sixtyish — on Earth Day Sunday, I made my first foray
Heroes of Health Care
May 8, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, May 7, 2025 National Nurses Week is a good time to honor our hospital caregivers We couldn’t get by without nurses. They’ve been
Stand by me
April 25, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, April 23, 2025 Three decades of making beautiful music — together. In the realm of celebrated teams — Dante and Beatrice, Mickey and
The Beatles at Northwestern
April 10, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, April 9, 2025 The mop tops never played at Welsh-Ryan Arena or Dyche Stadium (as Ryan Field was known then). To my knowledge
The lesson of the soap dispenser
March 21, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, March 19, 2025 “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards,” said the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and we
The world turned upside down
February 21, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 20, 2024 People didn’t notice at first. The steady tug of gravity has been with us so long — since the beginning
Turning 90, Jim Harper still shows his stuff on the pickleball court
February 8, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 6, 2025 As he embarks on his 10th decade, Jim Harper is still grateful he can get out on the McGaw YMCA
‘Somebody Somewhere’ turns out to be Evanston’s Hannah Bos
February 5, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 30, 2025 The co-creator and co-showrunner of the comedy drama, which last month completed a three-season run on HBO Max to rave