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Rick Kogan: “Puddin’ is as beautiful, moving and stunning a book as I can remember reading, and it’s unique.”

News, TempFebruary 3, 20230Comments

During his weekly radio show on WGN on Sunday, January 22, Chicago journalism legend Rick Kogan had high praise for Patrick T. Reardon’s Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, a Memoir in Prose Poems (Third World Press): “I have never read a book like Puddin’, and I’ve read tens of thousands of them….It is unique. …

Signing (and selling) books on Sunday morning at the Printers Row Lit Fest

NewsJune 8, 20170Comments

I nabbed the coveted 10 am-noon slot on Sunday, June 11, at the Printers Row Lit Fest in the South Loop, and I'll be signing and selling copies of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection Requiem for David in tent RR, three tents west of State Street on Polk Street. I'm sure there will be billboards pointing to…

Marina Abramovic’s page at artsy.net

NewsJune 24, 20150Comments

I'm a fan of Marina Abramovic's performance art. I wrote about it three years ago in a review of "The Lovers" which was the catalogue for the work that she and her partner at the time Ulay carried out in 1988 a walk toward each other on the Great Wall of China. There's also a wonderful video…

What I Learned from Bill O’Reilly and His Book about Lincoln

NewsDecember 28, 20110Comments

This story appeared in the Dec. 28, 2011 issue of Streetwise magazine. If you've ever watched a panel discussion at a convention workshop or in a museum or university setting, you know how easy it is for the event to be deadly dull. Too often, each participant simply takes his or her allotted 10 minutes to trot…

Thinking the thinkable

NewsOctober 19, 20110Comments

Recently, I sat down and wrote out a plan for my funeral service. A couple days later, I wrote about it in the Chicago Tribune. You can find it here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-perspec-1019-death-20111019,0,1817717.story

Hallowed ground

NewsSeptember 9, 20110Comments

Which is this nation's most hallowed ground? The phrase has been used to describe the Gettysburg battlefield, Arlington National Cemetery and Ground Zero. I write about this question in an op-ed piece in today's Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0909-hallowed-20110909,0,7298628.story