With Thanksgiving around the corner it’s time to brush up on our “hosting” skills. Jesse Browner, author of The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality, gives pointers drawing on the experiences of such “hosts extraordinaires” as Louis XIV, Gertrude Stein and-- Hitler!?
Dean Ducks Out?
Marty Meehan Congressman (D-MA-5th district) on Howard Dean's possible decision to "opt out" of public financing
Buzz on Bloomberg
Buzz Bissinger, Contributing editor at Vanity Fair Magazine and author, Friday Night Lights (Addison Wesley, 1990) and A Prayer for the City (Random House 1998) on Bloomberg's criticism'sof Rudy Guiliani
Be My Guest
Jesse Browner novelist and author of: The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality (Bloomsbury 2003) on the history of hospitality
She says, He says
Asne Seierstad award-winning Norwegian war journalist and author The Bookseller of Kabul (Little, Brown and Company, 2003) talks about life with an ordinary Afghan family
Keep The Libraries Alive!
Dr. Paul Leclerc President of the New York Public Library wants you to give the library $17