Roger Rosenblatt

The author of such bestsellers as Lapham Rising and Beet, Kayak Morning is the sequel to Rosenblatt’s acclaimed Making Toast, about the unexpected death of his daughter. Set two and a half years later, this new work is a remarkable unsentimental yet extraordinarily moving meditation on the passages ... (more)of grief, loss and aloneness, but most of all, on the redemptive and restorative powers of love.

Roger Rosenblatt, acclaimed author of Lapham Rising (Ecco, 2006), will discuss his new novel Beet (HarperCollins, 2008), an uproarious satire of an American college run amok by quarreling, aloof professors and an eclectic mix of student radicals. Rosenblatt’s contributions to Time and PBS have won ... (more)two George Polk Awards, a Peabody, and an Emmy. He is also the author of five Off-Broadway plays and 12 books, including a national bestseller, Rules for Aging, and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

"Journalist, playwright, humorist, and novelist,
Rosenblatt here chronicles Professor Peace
Porterfield’s efforts to save the fictional Beet
College from faculty and students who wish
to destroy it. Rife with political correctness,
trendy courses, and faculty infighting, Beet is
nonetheless ... (more)dear to Porterfield’s heart." (politics-prose.com)