Monthly Archives: December 2018

A year ago I was invited to my first Whitmanstide. Saturday on the Purple Line, en route to this year’s celebration, I ran into Nina. I hadn’t seen her since the street near her house was ceremonially renamed in honor of her husband, Lee, a great writer who passed away suddenly a few years back. SheContinue reading “Song of Myself (as well as a few others)”

I interviewed Filmfront’s Malia Haines-Stewart and Alan Garcia, along with Ashley Cooper, who has been running a series of classic Hollywood movies at that micro-cinema she calls “American Ego.” My article about them will be in this week’s Chicago Reader but you can listen to our talks here. This Saturday Cooper will be introducing a screeningContinue reading “A Face in the Crowd”