The wonderful New Yorker writer (his most recent piece was about the UC Berkeley crisis) Tad Friend will join us on January 20 at 6 PM. Paul Hendrickson will introduce. Friend is the author of the memoir Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, which came out in September, and Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands, a collection of his articles. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, and writes the magazine's "Letter from California." Mr Friend's recent pieces have included articles about Hollywood's marketing tricks, the electric-car and rocket-ship entrepreneur Elon Musk, the man in charge of executions at San Quentin, and the man who hopes to introduce "green burial" to American cemeteries. He has also written profiles of William Morris agent David Wirtschafter, screenwriter Ron Bass, and San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. His article on suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, "Jumpers," inspired the song "Jumpers" by the band Sleater-Kinney, and was turned into a documentary film, "The Bridge."
Thursday, January 7, 2010
New Yorker writer Tad Friend
The wonderful New Yorker writer (his most recent piece was about the UC Berkeley crisis) Tad Friend will join us on January 20 at 6 PM. Paul Hendrickson will introduce. Friend is the author of the memoir Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, which came out in September, and Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands, a collection of his articles. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, and writes the magazine's "Letter from California." Mr Friend's recent pieces have included articles about Hollywood's marketing tricks, the electric-car and rocket-ship entrepreneur Elon Musk, the man in charge of executions at San Quentin, and the man who hopes to introduce "green burial" to American cemeteries. He has also written profiles of William Morris agent David Wirtschafter, screenwriter Ron Bass, and San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. His article on suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, "Jumpers," inspired the song "Jumpers" by the band Sleater-Kinney, and was turned into a documentary film, "The Bridge."
