Last year, I had the opportunity to tour the site of the new cold-storage facility at O’Hare Airport. (Like any good writer, I took the tour without neither assignment nor deadline, and good luck getting any writer to write anything without a deadline in hand.) The tour was organized by the government of Ecuador, in… [Read More]
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This counts as a blog post, yes? Of course, yes. It’s summer in Chicago!
Togo: The Village of Waiting
George Packer is an accomplished writer covering national and international politics. This is his first book, published in 1988. It’s about his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo from 1982-1984. It’s a nation of seven million very poor people. When Packer was there, the country was transitioning from a republic with temporary military… [Read More]
Spring has sprung.
Spring has come to Chicago, and it is so hard getting any work done.
