Enjoyed my first visit to International ThrillFest at the Hyatt in NYC, but the real thrill was hearing R.L Stine inducted as this year’s Thrillermaster! Ken Follett — last year’s winner — was a worthy introducer. But Bob brought down the house with a speech that was funny and poignant and funny and perfect pitch. […]
Who knew I could love Nixon? Don’t miss some of my favorite Macaulay students on Thirteen.
July 5, 2011 by
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Michael Gruber, The Good Son: I’m dying to discuss this novel with someone, so please read it or listen to it (great audiobook) immediately!
June 5, 2011 by
In a category by itself of politico-thriller, The Good Son was almost impossible to put down. More accurately, since I was listening to it as an audiobook, I found it impossible to remove my earpiece. In fact, I bet I walked ten more miles than usual last week just to justify my added listening time. […]
What happens what you can’t judge a book by its cover? My latest e-reading thoughts, http://bit.ly/mjNkNT
May 30, 2011 by
and if you are motivated to read some other articles I wrote on this subject: More “For the Love of Reading,” with Brooke Gladstone, “On the Media,” WNYC-NPR, July 2, 2010 (podcast). My iPAD day, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2010 How do you read your books? Romana Koval interviews Ann Kirschner for “the […]
Peter Weinberg graduates from Middlebury: summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of Catton Prize for senior thesis! Yup, we are intensely proud.
May 22, 2011 by
How about those Dungeon boys? A weekend of wonderful events with parents, siblings, friends, faculty.
Look out for Macaulay Class of 2011!
May 11, 2011 by
I just hosted my last of seven dinners for seniors — got to spend time with an amazing group of talented, dynamic, thoughtful, and oh so interesting young men and women. Science and journalism, policy and art and anthropology and investment banking and medicine — they will transform the professional worlds they are entering and […]
Letty, Abigail, and Robin Pogrebin speaking at Macaulay on Sunday, three extraordinary women, best pre-Mother’s Day ever!
April 26, 2011 by
And then I’ll be racing to get to Staten Island for my own talk at the Young Israel of Staten Island! SUNDAY, 1 May, 730p Also speaking Monday at the Golda Ochs Academy in West Orange. MONDAY, 2 May, 11A.
Cancer, color, culture
April 25, 2011 by
http://bit.ly/gHIyyo. Sounds like a great book on race and medicine by Princeton professor Keith Wailoo. An important reminder that the story behind statistics is usually at least as interesting as the statistics themselves.
Joining Professor Richard Blot’s seminar on “Friendship”
April 24, 2011 by
I’ll be teaching/talking/thinking aloud about FRIENDSHIP in Professor Richard Blot’s seminar on May 3 at Lehman College. Odd how it coincides with the end of Passover and the other Yom Hashoa talks I’m giving…for my mother’s survival had so much to do with friendship. Of the women who were with Sala for years in the […]
I’ll be doing Tiger Duty at Princeton conference
April 24, 2011 by
I”ll be holding down the 70’s on a Princeton panel at the SHE ROARS conference on April 29 in McCosh 50. Have to decide whether I will publicly reveal my shame as a chain-smoking grad assistant in 1974….oops, guess I just did. That will be after participating in the two-day Princeton English Department Advisory Council, […]