Tag: j. michael lennon


  • INTERVIEW: Rachel Weaver, Writer of Dizzy: A Memoir

    Interviewed by J. Michael Lennon Halfway by way of Dizzy: A Memoir (West Virginia College Press; 2025), an alternately excruciating and lyrical memoir of being misplaced for 18 years within the complexities of a tough to diagnose medical situation, Rachel Weaver runs right into a fellow affected person at one of many innumerable clinics the place…

  • REVIEW: Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Freidan, Mailer by David Denby

    Reviewed by J. Michael Lennon David Denby took on fairly a job of labor when he determined to depict the lives of 4 well-known Twentieth-Century Individuals: Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer in Eminent Jews (Henry Holt and Co.; April 2025). Pretty presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this gifted quartet, all…