Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Bill Bryson’s “One Summer, America 1927,” when “America First” came to call

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As I read Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927,” I realized that our history is comprised of an amazing number of knuckleheads and heroes...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Naomi Hirahara weaves a murder mystery into a 1940s historical novel and it's swell

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Just when I think I’ve read every World War Two-era novel…. “Clark and Division” by Naomi Hirahara brings us into the life of Aki Ito. She...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Nelson Algren lived the writer's life in the 1930s and J. Edgar Hoover was watching

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I write a fan letter to fellow writer Colin Asher : Dear Colin: Just finished reading “Never a Lovely So Real.” I loved it. Your intro secti...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

My grandfather left his lung in Chicago

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As I was being interviewed Tuesday night by Michael Sweeney and Tyler Rippeteau, a couple of big-city bloggers who host "Progressive Bl...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Hummingbirdminds interview tonight on "Progressive Blogosphere on the Air"

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The Stonecipher Report's Michael Sweeney and Tyler Rippeteau will be interviewing me tonight on "Progressive Blogosphere on the Air...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

In Memoriam: Studs Terkel, storyteller

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Not much you can say when one of your favorite authors passes away. So we'll let Studs Terkel have the last word: "Who are the best...
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