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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]