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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]