The Family BusinessMy father, the writer, sat at our kitchen table pounding on a typewriter as I came and went getting snacks for my afternoon with Yogi Bear…Aug 24, 2021Aug 24, 2021
Two-Minute Commencement Address: Curating a LifeIts graduation day and you’re head is full of knowledge and your heart full of hope. You are imagining new frontiers — jobs that engage…Jun 1, 2019Jun 1, 2019
The Shape of Water: Love is LoveI was thrilled to see THE SHAPE OF WATER win the best picture at the Academy Awards.Dec 27, 2017Dec 27, 2017
KodachromeMama never knew about the pictures, the ones I found, the one I took or the one that was taken of me. Her idea of a picture was the family…Sep 1, 2017Sep 1, 2017
Sons and Daughters of Ease and PlentySons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, by Ramona Ausubel. Riverhead, 2016. $27, 320 pages.Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016
Review: ‘Eve of a Hundred Midnights,’ by Bill LascherWhen his grandmother gave Bill Lascher a 1930s Corona typewriter that had belonged to her cousin Melville Jacoby, a correspondent in the…Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016