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The New York Sun
Gary Shapiro
March 25, 2005
A reception was held Tuesday night at the School of the Arts at Columbia University to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Hertog Research Fellows program, supported by Susan and Roger Hertog, giving six students a year jobs as research assistants with more established authors – as well as $4,000 a year. Mr. Hertog is an investor in The New York Sun.
Peter Carey, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, T.J. Stiles, Kathryn Harrison, and others have participated in the program over the past decade. The director of the program is a professor of nonfiction in the Writing Division, Patricia O’Toole, whose new book is “When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House” (Simon & Schuster). At the event, Richard Locke, who heads the nonfiction program in the Writing Division at Columbia, said fellowships link the academy to the literary world at large and serve as a practical complement to workshops and classroom experience.
There was lot of literary and journalistic talent in the room – young and old. Among those seen at the event were Phillip Lopate, who is working on a novella as well as an anthology of movie criticism; New York Review of Books contributor Michael Massing, writing a historical book about the Protestant Reformation; Honor Moore, who is writing a memoir of her father, Bishop Paul Moore; Jan Heller Levi, who is writing a biography of poet Muriel Rukeyser; Diane McWhorter, whose new book is “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution” (Simon & Schuster); Ron Chernow, at work on a George Washington biography; Stephen Dubner, who co-authored the upcoming book “Freakonomics” (William Morrow); Deirdre Bair, a biographer, most recently of Carl Gustav Jung; and science writer Richard Panek, who has written about such subjects as telescopes and Einstein.
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MAGAZINE MIGHT
Newhouse School of Public Communications faculty members William A. Glavin Jr. and Melissa Chessher participated in a the Newhouse Alumni Club of Metropolitan New York gathering at Lubin House to hear recent alumni authors showcase their books. A co-coordinator of the event was Laurie Campbell, a magazine editorial assistant in New York.
Koren Zailckas read from “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood” (Viking Adult), which centers on how she drank in high school and college. After graduation, she gave up drinking and wrote the book.
Another book featured was “The Hookup Handbook: A Single Girl’s Guide to Living It Up” (Simon & Schuster) read by co-authors Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler. The book is an ironic guide to what passes for romance these days, or rather non-romance, since the book is a “guide to the new, non-dating game.”
Among those in the audience was lawyer Bryan Swerling who co-authored, with David Wygant, “Always Talk to Strangers: 3 Simple Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life” (Perigee Trade). Mr. Swerling had recently found his girlfriend through Internet dating, he said.
Others in the audience seemed more successful in the dating world: One arrived wearing a diamond engagement ring. |
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