Local professor pens compelling brain-teaser of a novel

Jun. 27, 2011
William is an "epitaphorist," set with the task of assisting families to create the perfect life summation of their loved ones, to be carved into gravestones. Things get lost in the distillation process. A revolutionary can become the model husband if you cross out all of the bomb throwing.

A rave for Writers' Theatre's "A Minister's Wife"

May. 9, 2011
A rave from the usually ornery Charles Isherwood for Writers' Theatre's A Minister's Wife, a musical retelling of Shaw's Candida, remounted at Lincoln Center.Kudos to creator/director Michael Halberstam (Writers' Theatre's Artistic Director), bookwriter Austin Pendleton (of th