my father we were one of the few Jewish families in Bloomington Indiana in the ' 50s and and that would not be true today Bloomington is a more Cosmopolitan it's not quite an arbor it's not San Francisco but uh but back then it was avery isolating Place uh for Jewish families to be as a result I always felt
could have gone to New York City and any of these places might have been a smarter place for my real purpose but I was born and raised in Bloomington Indiana and I'm a Midwest girl through and through so I found a home here in Ann Arbor and I have never left Once I arrived in an arber in 78 i
immigrant my mother and a survivor of the Mean Streets of Patterson New Jersey my father we were one of the few Jewish families in Bloomington Indiana in the ' 50s and and that would not be true today Bloomington is a more Cosmopolitan it's not quite an arbor it's not San Francisco but uh but back then it was a
Symphony Orchestra. And not to jump ahead, but that was the end of my formal education pretty much, as far as orchestral stuff. Let's jump ahead, because Bloomington and being at Indiana ultimately led to you meeting John Mellencamp. Right. So when I was at school, I didn't meet John.
learn from each other over this collaboration I think Joshua's mother figures very prominently no but if she does well explain that please yes uh I was I went to Indiana University of Bloomington and Josh had just left actually I went to study with a Hungarian Guru and having and I stayed there for a long time in the way that
And wait a minute, what am I thinking? This is what I always wanted to do, and it's right here in Bloomington -- my backyard. So I'm on the phone going, I want this.
until the spto festival in Charleston in 2004 when yeah I mean we both knew of each other his reputation and and and he knew about me we we kind of I grew up in Bloomington Indiana and I went to school there that's why my family lives there but my mother did used to say you know have you heard this pianist he's really
There were other people out there using terminals too. Control Data Corporation was a major player in the computer industry, and they were based in Minneapolis, Bloomington area.
that I do. And she gets very passionate about it. And then, of course, I have to write the book for the next year and she forgets entirely about it. She was most helpful to me when I did my book 'The Inner Circle', which came out in 2004. This is about Alfred C. Kinsey, who invented sex and she went with June Bloomington and Diana with me and we went to the Kinsey Institute. And we studied all the various arcane sexual things he's got there. And then, of course, she helped me with the research. She's continuing to help me with the research for that one.
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in the Middle East, there was the possibilities represented by the Oslo Process and then the breakdown of that process, there was a nuclear test in India dubbed, "The Hindu Bomb," there was the response in Pakistan dubbed, "The Muslim Bomb," there was a, a terrible rampage through Champaign, Illinois and Chicago and Bloomington , Indiana, somebody who shot and targeted Jews, Asian Americans, and African Americans.