I'm vaguely familiar with both of Stephen's guests tonight, but I'm not quite sure where from. Or whether I can entirely trust the Daily Show/Colbert Report site searches. Anyway, Khaled Hosseini is the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, both of which I fully intend to get around to reading one of these days. His most recent blog entry includes this:
I also want to thank my publisher, Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). They donated money on behalf of all the booksellers, librarians, and educators who supported The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, and built a primary school in Arababshirali, in northern Afghanistan. The school, which will benefit 270 students, will be a sanctuary of hope and happiness for many children....This school will be a godsend. It’s very humbling.
...Secondly, A Thousand Splendid Suns is out on paperback on November 25th. I will be visiting New York to promote the book next week. If you fancy a laugh or two, I will be on The Colbert Report on December 1st. I approach the interview with equal measures of giddiness and anxiety. You never know what he has up his sleeve!
Oh, and there's this:
Roland Freyer sounds familiar to me, but the Comedy Central websites aren't turning up any search results. Maybe it's the Freakonomics connection, or his time as the Chief Equality Officer for the NYC public schools. Probably not the (New) New Einsteins thing, I think I'd have remembered that. Anyway, he's the guy (well, the Harvard Economics Professor) with the incentive plan which pays kids for getting good grades. He's now running the Educational Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University ("EdLabs"), which seems to be about more paying kids for good grades. Probably other stuff as well.
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