SELECTED PUBLICATIONS “The Perils of Plenty” | Contrary magazine, Winter 2008 “Nature retains her balance: for every coin she gives, she takes something equal away.” “Poems for the Revolution” | Contrary magazine, Autumn 2007 “In a stampede it’s not hard to be a rebel — you just have to stand still.” “Vintage Prints” |  After Hours, a Journal of Chicago Literature , 2006 “People move through this city the way people move through history — in tribes...” “Sensuous Chicago: A Sense of Place” |  Newcity magazine, 2005 “I have come to suspect that my radio taps into some other frequency, a kind of city ESP.” “Stealing from the Time Thief” | Contrary magazine, 2003 “There is always some next place we must be at some next time, while the car waits with engine tapping like an impatient foot. While the toll taker waits to take the final toll.” “Nelson Algren’s Secret Muse” |  Newcity magazine, 2003 “Algren owes more to this poet than a few good lines.... He owes him the two Chicagos, the two-faced city, the city on the make.” “Ripples on our Lives” |  New Times, 1999 “We should build a memorial to our disappeared women.” • Winner of the 2000 Golden Quill Award, International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors “A Stalker Among Us”  |  New Times, 1998 “Who among us has crossed paths with the attacker?” • Winner of the 1999 Golden Quill Award, International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, and first place, column writing, from the California Newspaper Publishers Association “San Simeon’s Shadow”  |  New Times, 1998  “How does a dead gull bob in a still lagoon?” • Winner of first place, column writing, California Newspaper Publishers Association, and a Golden Dozen award, International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors “The Impossible Valentine”  |  New Times, 1997 “How do lovers know their love is real?” • A Tribute to New York World Columnist Heywood Broun “Thy Father’s Spirit” |  New Times, 1997 “Death is a changing, not an ending.” • Winner of first place, column writing, from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and a Golden Dozen award from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors “Freedom on Fire” |  New Times, 1995  “Of course they burned it down.”  • Winner of first place, column writing, from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. “Sluggards of the World Unite” | New Times, 1995 “The cold gray dawn is no time for mirth and laughter.” • Winner of first place, column writing, from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. “American Apartheid” | New Times, 1994  “We should have free elections in America first.” • Winner of a Democracy Award from the National Newspaper Association, and second place awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. EARLY PROTOTYPES “Thoughtcrime” | Arizona Daily Wildcat, 1985 An early invective against yuppies and consumerism:“A life of business for the sake of business is a life in pursuit of ephemera, a life spent sucking minerals out of a rock that is bound to suck them back.” “Jose’s Story” | Arizona Daily Wildcat, 1985 “Today, free spirits are difficult to find.” The story of one such. REVIEWS It Seems to Me by Heywood Broun, 2008 Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee, 2008 The Story of French by Jean Benoit-Nadeau and Julie Barlow, 2007 Selected Reviews from New Times, 1993-1997 http://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Contradiction-2.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Contradiction-2.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Contradiction-1.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Contradiction-1.htmlVintage.htmlVintage.htmlSensuous.htmlSensuous.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Thief.htmhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Thief.htmhttp://www.planetobispo.com/Jeff-McMahon/Algren.htmlhttp://www.planetobispo.com/Jeff-McMahon/Algren.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education1.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education1.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education1.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education2.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education2.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education2.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Valentine.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Valentine.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Valentine.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education3.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education3.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education3.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education5.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education5.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education5.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education6.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education6.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education6.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education7.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education7.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education7.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmcmahon/Education7.htmlThoughtcrime.htmlThoughtcrime.htmlJose.htmlJose.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Contradiction-3.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Coetzee.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Nadeau.htmlBookReviews.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16shapeimage_1_link_17shapeimage_1_link_18shapeimage_1_link_19shapeimage_1_link_20shapeimage_1_link_21shapeimage_1_link_22shapeimage_1_link_23shapeimage_1_link_24shapeimage_1_link_25shapeimage_1_link_26shapeimage_1_link_27shapeimage_1_link_28shapeimage_1_link_29shapeimage_1_link_30shapeimage_1_link_31shapeimage_1_link_32shapeimage_1_link_33shapeimage_1_link_34shapeimage_1_link_35shapeimage_1_link_36shapeimage_1_link_37shapeimage_1_link_38shapeimage_1_link_39shapeimage_1_link_40shapeimage_1_link_41shapeimage_1_link_42shapeimage_1_link_43shapeimage_1_link_44
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