Proliferation: Business, Science, and Writing
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Recent developments regarding the Bush Administration’s ties to Enron have shed new light on the company’s collapse. New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy explains how an innocent economic theory led to one of the worst scandals in American business history. Science writer Carole Angier discusses her biography of writer, chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. Plus, Katy Robinson talks about the rediscovery of her Korean birth parents, A Single Square Picture. Prolific author, Joyce Carol Oates, shares her latest novel, I’ll Take You There.
John Cassidy
New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy explains how an innocent economic theory led to one of the worst scandals in American business history.
Carole Angier
Carole Angier on the life of writer, chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, The Double Bond: Primo Levi A Biography.
Katy Robinson
Katy Robinson discusses the rediscovery of her Korean birth parents, A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search For Her Roots.
Joyce Carol Oates
Prolific author, Joyce Carol Oates, shares her latest novel, I’ll Take You There. Read an excerpt of her book in the Reading Room.
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