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Tribute to George Costas
Christmas 2006
In mid-October an old friend of mine, George Costas, died of apparent heart attack. He would have been 76 in December and lived in semi-exile in Beloit, Wisconsin, too many miles from his beloved Chicago.
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Distance
Fall 1994
The talk of light years goes gently around the table, as though we’re talking of a cross-town trip.
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On Books and Records — Barbara Kingsolver
Winter 1993
Reading “The Glory Road” by Bob Bach [Pietisten, Summer, 1993] brought back old memories of my travels with friends through the Western States. Like Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, we would hit the road with little but hope, trusting our luck, and in less than dependable cars.
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On Books — Schor, Kozol, and Marable
Spring 1993
Juliet B. Schor’s The Overworked American, Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, and Manning Marable’s The Crisis of Color and Democracy
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Willie Mae, by Elizabeth Kytle
Fall 1992
Willie Mae is a first-person biography which was first published by Alfred Knopf in 1958. And according to the blurb on the back of the EPM paperback, “it was listed by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year, and was widely reviewed as ‘a sweet book, a strong book, a laughing book, and sometimes a heartbreaking and infuriating book, but never a whining book.’” That truly wraps up the flavor of Willie Mae.
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Mary Jones
Winter 1991
Even without considering August 21st, the date of her death, Mary had a rough 1991.
