NEA Podcast: A Conversation with Rita Moreno
Star of stage and screen–and winner of just about every performance award–Rita Moreno talks about her life as a performing artist.
Rocco and Blue Star Families Chairman Kathy Roth-Douquet announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a partnership with more than 600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial D…
Podcast: A tribute to Merce Cunningham
May 24, 2010
Dancer/choreographer Elizabeth Streb, dance historian Suzanne Carbonneau, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company Executive Director Trevor Carlson discuss the tremendous impact made by the trailblazing choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Drug Development
May 20, 2010
On Forbes.com, the drug industry analyst Avik Roy has written a comment on my piece "The Treatment" in last week’s New Yorker. A few small points, in response. Roy is of the impression that that I believe we should abandon…
What’s That?
May 17, 2010
Anyone who follows this blog knows I’m not big on rules of writing. But in my experience as an author, a reader, and an editor, I’ve found the word "that" is one of the least-needed, most overused, and most frequently misused, in all of modern literature. To better understand what I’m driving at here, allow me to rewrite those first two lines with the "thats" left in:Anyone who follows this blog
Sexism: The Killer Elephant in the Room
May 17, 2010
No one wants to read this essay. I surely did not look forward to writing it, but I live and teach in Charlottesville, Virginia, a place called home for four years by Yeardley Love, a lacrosse player, stellar student, and the breath of grace in countle…
For Crying Out Loud? Three Cheers!
May 5, 2010
Our bodies have their own wisdom, a wisdom that deserves our trust. Shedding tears is one tried and true way that the body repairs itself. What a gift all round if we can grow more comfortable with our own tears as well as those of …
Speaking Tour!
May 3, 2010
I will be doing a short tour of the U.K. next week, speaking on a brand new mystery topic! I’ll be in Edinburgh on Sunday May 9th, Oxford on the 10th, Manchester on the 11th and Newcastle on the 12th….
Selected recitations by Amber Johnson, Ruth Haile, and Nora Sandler, this year’s top three winners of the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest.
From a competitive field of more than 320,000 students nationwide, 16-year-old Amber Rose Johnson of Providence, Rhode Island, received the title of 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Champion at the National Finals held in Washington, DC on Tuesday, April …