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. […]
Was hoarding my precious remaining minutes of Hyperion….and now I’ve discovered TWO MORE BOOKS in the series! Yay!
July 18, 2011 by
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. […]
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 […]
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.
Speaking at Golda Och Academy in West Orange, NJ
April 4, 2011 by
May 2@1030a I’ll be there with Jill Vexler and the Letters to Sala exhibition Our host: Adam Shapiro, Dean of Students Golda Och Academy 1418 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, NJ 07052 973-602-3690
Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..
December 23, 2010 by
Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton will open at Rollins College on February 11, 2011…and Tony Kushner will be there a few months later. OK, so we’re not exactly on the same page, but we’re close! Either way, I’d love to see you in Winter Park Florida. I will be there as Scholar in Residence […]
Elisabeth Kirschner Weinberg and Matthew Stine
July 4, 2010 by
Happy Fourth of July….. I read it in the New York Times…. Wedding 2010 has arrived!
Podcast: Reading Little Dorrit on the iPad; or, I read Dickens FIVE WAYS
July 2, 2010 by
NPR updated my answer to the question I asked last year: Do I love reading or do I love books? Here’s the Chronicle of Higher Education original article, and the one I just published on the iPad: Reading Dickens Four Ways (2009) My iPad Day (2010) Check out this Judy Jetson illustration that accompanied the […]