The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Andrea Weiss, a documentary filmmaker and nonfiction author.She is also Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication Arts at The City College of New York, CUNY.
Her most recent book is In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story.
Her entry begins:
Read more about Andrea Weiss' films and books, and read an excerpt from and learn more about In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain at the University of Chicago Press website.Last week I finished reading The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester. You've already heard, unless you've been hiding under a rock, that the story is fascinating and Winchester tells it amazingly well. Hard to believe that what is essentially a history of the dictionary can make for such a compelling read. All those accolades he received for it are well deserved.[read on]
Writers Read: Andrea Weiss.
--Marshal Zeringue
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