How DeWyze came to the Reader: In the early ‘70s, my best friend at Northwestern University, Randy Barnett, got a job selling ads for the fledgling Chicago Reader. I was involved in campus life (including journalism studies) so never sought to write for that Reader. But after graduation, when Randy visited San Diego in the summer of 1974, he and I stopped in at the offices of the distantly related San Diego Reader. Editor and publisher Jim Holman invited me to submit freelance cover articles.
