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Let’s get this blog restarted!
I’ve been keeping track of the books I read for several years. I just reviewed what I’ve read so far in 2014 and counted 31. OK, one’s a picture book, but still that’s a pretty respectable total for...
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Chicago Taxi Writer
I had to take a taxi tonight and had the unexpected good fortune to hail Jack Clark, a Chicago writer and cabdriver, who made me a gift of one of his books. Mr. Clark used to write for the Chicago...
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Law and Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Halloween week seemed like a good time to reread some 19th century horror fiction, so I downloaded the free e-book for Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” To my surprise, I found a...
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Why read disturbing fiction?
The Wall Street Journal has an interview with Jonathan Franzen, who has chosen Kenzaburo Oe’s “A Personal Matter,” a novel published in 1964, for the WSJ Book Club. I particularly enjoyed Franzen’s...
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Another article online!
I’m pleased that Bloomberg BNA has made one of my conference reports available online. It’s from the midyear meeting of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, held in Chicago in February, entitled...
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