Since 75 percent of those who read the Tribune live in the suburbs, I find they look for a balance of topics to address the balance of their lives. I look for a range. I write fiction all the time but identify it as fiction. I am a vacuum, a predator. I use colleagues, family who are being more and more exposed, anyone.
Deadlines crowd out doubt.
My columns will tell of the desperation that we live under. All of us have issues, themes we care about. Her greatest is poverty. I feel I need to distance myself from my predecessors and do my own thing. A resident of Oak Park, Brown describes himself as a general interest columnist who can be informative on politics or the government or write a silly column about his dog.