| Mo 9/9 |
Sheri Fink (MD, PhD), journalist/author, book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital”
@sherifink
sherifink.net at Propublica at NYTimes at newamerica.net at her speakers bureau reviews at B&N, Amazon
From the publisher's synopsis:
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice...
In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.
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| Tu 9/10 |
Bill Dedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for NBC News, co-author of "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" with Paul Clark Newell (a relative, not a ghostwriter).
@BillDedman
emptymansionsbook.com
Amazon, B&N
From the publisher's synopsis:
When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?
Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world...
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| We 9/11 |
Bob Odenkirk & David Cross,comedians, actors, writers, producers and directors, book "Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show"
@mrbobodenkirk
amazon, B&N
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