Thu 1/20 @ 7PM
Humorist Andy Borowitz writes one of the funniest political satire columns anywhere, The Borowitz Report, which you can read in The New Yorker. Recent headlines include “Fauci defends calling GOP senator a moron: ‘I’m just following the science,’” “Americans hope Jim Jordan’s refusal to talk becomes a trend,” and “Sean Hannity informs January 6 panel that swearing to tell the truth violates his contact with Fox.” Before that, he wrote for TV series The Facts of Life and Square Pegs, and created the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
He’s also a graduate of Shaker Heights High School (1976), who went on to Harvard where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon.”
Author/journalist/Pulitzer Prize winner Kathryn Schultz also graduated from Shaker Heights High School, 16 years after Borowitz, and also left NE Ohio to attend an Ivy League college — Brown. In 2005, she joined Borowitz at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer. Her second book, Lost & Found, has just been published. It’s described as “part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering—a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.”
Borowitz and Schultz will connect in NE Ohio — virtually — when they hold a Zoom conversation sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Public Library on Thursday January 20. It’s free but registration is required to get the Zoom link. Go here to register.
You can order Lost & Found from event co-sponsor Mac’s Backs — Books on Coventry here.