Day Trip to Chicago For Non-Fiction Panel

Day Trip to Chicago For Non-Fiction Panel Well, now that sailing season is essentially over, my weekends stretch unendingly before me. So this past weekend I decided to drive up to Chicago to attend an SCBWI-sponsored panel discussion about writing non-fiction for...

Do Photos Make a Book?

Do Photos Make a Book? Well, I got some bad news today. The photographer who took the photo of Rachel Alexandra for Vogue declines to give me permission to use it in the book. I should not be surprised; I don’t see that photo floating around like many others....

June Was A False Start, Let’s Try October!

June Was A False Start, Let’s Try October! Well, that first blog post kind of fizzled didn’t it? The problem is, I’m not completely sure what I want to write about here. It should be writing related, this much I know, but the only other blog I write,...
Reel Success

Reel Success

Stephen Lutz, MS ’74 AHS, who grew up fishing with his father for bluegill, bass and redear sunfish near Paris, Ill., caught his first fish at the age of 5. He’s been hooked ever since. As he grew older, the idea of creating a collegiate bass fishing league, along the...
Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Iconoclastic artist William Wegman reflects on his graduate studies, photographs of Weimaraners and recent return to painting First Appeared: Illinois Alumni magazine To appreciate the unconventional nature of William Wegman’s art, consider his 1967 master’s thesis...