This week I describe meeting my friend James at a Hyde Park party.
Hunters Point Avenue
There is a tourism epidemic. Continue reading Hunters Point Avenue
Chicago Bohemian
In this episode I describe my low income life of 1988. This included an early morning job unlocking buildings on the University of Chicago campus using a little known passageway that went from Cobb Hall to the Business School.
Rekha’s First Message
This week we here a message from my friend Rekha, and I recount an incident driving through Wisconsin that required us to take the bus from Osseo. At the time, Greyhound still had a bus stop in Osseo. This stop, along with hundreds of others, was closed in 2004.
Iceland Tourist
The words “bucket list” make me dyspeptic: they suggest a sort of checklist tourism that Don Delillo so brilliantly mocked in White Noise. Continue reading Iceland Tourist
