Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
Author Visit: Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends (2023)
Meet author and publishing executive Will Schwalbe to discuss his prolific, multi-faceted career, including his most recent memoir We Should Not Be Friends (2023). The book recounts his unexpected, 40+ year friendship with former Navy SEAL Chris Maxey and demonstrates the enriching and transformative power of friendships, especially unlikely ones. A lifelong bibliophile, Schwalbe will also address the pleasures and complexities of crafting a memoir, recent transformations in the publishing industry, why reading and discussing books still matter in today’s distracted, 24/7 smart-phone environment, and other topics at the intersection of literature, learning, love, and life. Time will be reserved for audience Q&A.
WILL SCHWALBE is the author of We Should Not Be Friends (2023) as well as two previous memoirs: The End of Your Life Book Club (2012), about the books he read in tandem with his mother while she was dying of cancer, and Books for Living (2017) a spirited narrative about how books can help us live more meaningful and emotionally connected lives. A long-time resident of New England, Schwalbe attended Yale University and worked as a journalist before becoming an editor at New York City publishing houses. LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Author Visit: Mimi Zieman, Tap Dancing on Everest (2024)”). Wednesday, April 3 Rescheduling in process • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12440 • $25 Author Visit: Mimi Zieman, Tap Dancing on Everest (2024) Meet Mimi Zieman, author of the memoir Tap Dancing on Everest (dueout in April) at this lunch and learn event moderated by Lori Rotskoff. Hear the details of Zieman's dangerous ascent of Mount Everest as a 25-year old medical student. Taking a route up the Eastern face, a treacherous side that had been summited successfully only once before, Zieman and her three male climbing companions chose to forego supplemental oxygen, sherpas, or chance for rescue. Suspenseful and inspiring, Zieman weaves her background as a child of an immigrant Holocaust survivor into the story recounting the risks of this irresistible personal wilderness challenge. Time will be reserved for audience Q&A. Class fee includes lunch (choice of entree, beverages, and cookies), plus a copy of Zieman's book. MIMI ZIEMAN is a physician, speaker, women’s health
advocate, and author. In addition to her memoir Tap Dancing onEverest , she has also written the play The Post-Roe Monologues , co-authored sixteen editions of Managing
Contraception , and published pieces in Newsweek , Ms. Magazine , NBC News THINK, TheSun Magazine , and elsewhere. She has previously served on the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine, was a founding member of the Society of Family Planning, and participated in the CDC committees that wrote guidelines concerning contraceptive care. LORI ROTSKOFF is a cultural historian, writer, educator, and public speaker specializing in memoirs and narrative nonfiction, childhood and youth, women’s and gender studies, and arts and culture. She studied history and literature at Northwestern University and earned a PhD in American Studies at Yale.
Friday, June 7 • 12:00pm-2:00pm • Beach Point Club • Course 12597 • $75
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