Author Archives: name withheld

To the editors: As an Oak Park police officer, I feel obliged to respond, with my individual opinion, to your front-page article of November 27 [“Two Cops Who Broke the Code“]. The article concerns a nonstory which will remain a nonstory unless allegations are borne out by facts. Since the initiation of this investigation in […]

To the editors: Achy Obejas’s latest review, “Reading: Little Wimmin” [November 6], allows Achy, and not Armistead Maupin, to increase misunderstandings between the gay male and lesbian community. Achy continues to drop her proverbial “gauntlet” on the gay male community whenever she has the chance. Achy’s view of the world is limited by her desperately […]

To the editors: I’m writing a fan letter to a man who, so far as I knew, never wrote a word that appeared in the Reader. But he’s given authority to so many other voices that I’ve come to think of him as Chicago’s wholesale Svengali. Michael Miner’s Hot Type tribute to your just-departed editor […]

To the editors: I read Rose Marion’s article “First Person: Just Say No?” [August 7] with a sense of familiar horror. I too grew up in a dysfunctional family with a grandiose, alcoholic father and a cooperating, depressed mother. I too am aware from painful personal experience of the hypocritical American blind eye toward the […]

To the editors: The letter from Bernard Hyland (July 17th) is as much a vicious, hateful attack on Mildred Taylor as he claims her article is on those she met during her “Day in New York” [June 19]. Ms. Taylor understandably felt fearful, angry, and paranoid. What is Mr. Hyland’s excuse? Ms. Taylor’s article was […]