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Autonomia: where the freethinker can rest, refill and live free.

If I don’t know you, I urge you to listen to this episode and consider doing the same. Americans may not have another quarter century to keep America free from becoming a dictatorship. Don’t let it go. May you remember that black Tuesday in writing, in speech, in art—if only in private.

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Listen to me read aloud two referenced short stories by yours truly—“Egoless” and “Beautiful are the Brave”—about a boy who chooses to commit an act of evil and a man who choose to become like a woman, and, then, doubts his choice.

Read this article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for an early report on the Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 attack. Read this article in Time for facts about the murderer.

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In this episode, I discuss forthcoming reviews of various books—as well as the previously reviewed album by Taylor Swift (read my 31-song review here) on romantic grief and loss—focused on resilience from grief. I refer to my grief over America’s rejection of a boy who’d escaped dictatorship to live free (listen to my episode on the 25th anniversary of Elian being forced into slavery at U.S.-sponsored gunpoint).

I also discuss the image included herewith, courtesy of Kansas City, Missouri artist Jackie Grawe. Jackie told me that her painting “is pastel on toned paper” adding that “the actor did a Facebook Live in 2020 after watching police brutality against a young black man.” Jackie tells me she took a screenshot before painting the portrait by hand.

Finally, Classic Chicago magazine published my new, in-depth profile of writer L Frank Baum as the lead story on this Easter Sunday. It’s a tale I titled: “From Failure to Fiction: L. Frank Baum in Chicago.” You can read the article (for free) here. I discuss the article and its meaning and relevance to Easter in this episode.

This is part of my series, Industrial Revolutions, for the Chicago publication, which previously published my profiles of Walt Disney, Charles Ingalls and the Standard Oil Building. The website recently started publishing short fiction, debuting with my winter-themed short stories. My newest short story, a mythical, science fiction tale about an old woman born in a log cabin, debuts next month.

The article about Mr. Baum has been among my writing projects for over a year. I’ve been interested in this author, and the role Chicago played in the development of his children’s stories, since I first read and reviewed his first book about Oz. Chicago deserves more credit than I’d realized. Born in New York, with adventures from east to American West as a printer, newspaper publisher, oil salesman, opera house manager, journalist, businessman, husband, father and, ultimately, curious Chicago capitalist who lived and died in Hollywood, I trace Baum’s amazing literary life. I hope you enjoy reading the article.

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Anatomy of a Fall gets me thinking. This is an all-encompassing motion picture. Its characters, plot and theme stimulate, stir and soothe all at once in waves. At times, it’s an edge-of-the-seat, intellectual thriller. The movie’s sharp, visceral, emotional, psychological and extremely challenging. It’s likely to get you thinking, too.

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Scott Holleran reviews the 2023 motion picture musical version of the novel.

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Table of contents

October contents include:

* Arthur 2: On the Rocks reviewed (Liza Minnelli Movies)

* Theater review: The Sound Inside (Pasadena Playhouse)

* Preview or read Friday with Fred Astaire’s review of Ghost Story

* Read Scott Holleran’s 90th birthday tribute to Leonard Peikoff; Just Deserts: A Philosopher for the Living

* Classic TV series review: The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968, CBS)

* New TV series review: Frasier (2023, Paramount Plus)

* Review of a new 22-minute film about abortion

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These are the November and other future articles in progress:

* A new review in the Liza Minnelli Movies series of her movie with Burt Reynolds

* The fourth in my 30 Years in the Press series

* Centennials: Time magazine, Simon & Schuster, Warner Bros.

* New book, TV and movie reviews

* Article focusing on Iran’s 1979 embassy siege and attack on America

Movie Review: Green Book (2018) by Scott Holleran

This is part of a series I’m writing for the newsletter. It’s called Reality Check.

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Report: Salman Rushdie (Part Three: Did the U.S. respond to the assassination attempt? How is Rushdie? Now what happens?)

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