Buoyed by the interest and attention brought on by the Reader’s feature, Chicago criminal defense attorney Stuart V. Goldberg decided to finally release his autobiographical novel The Snake Charmer.
But finding Goldberg proved difficult, since, as he explained to the Reader, he doesn’t use e-mail and almost never goes to his office. “It took me about a month of pestering him,” said Kight. “I left information for him at his office and even at his home.” Finally, he agreed to meet her at a Gold Coast Argo Tea. When he arrived, she remembers, he parked his big Rolls Royce right outside the door in what was probably not a parking space. He was more interested in discussing The Snake Charmer than his first novel.
“I was getting a massage and the person’s hands were fantastic and I said ‘Your hands are like an artist!’ And she said ‘I am an artist,’” he recounted to me in an interview. The massage therapist-painter was named Kara Schabacker. Like many who meet Goldberg, Schabacker was drawn to his energy and vision. She became intrigued when Goldberg told her about his book.
