(From Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle) by Scott McLemee | Mar-15-2011 Balakian award winner Scott McLemee, for three years chair of the Balakian committee, welcomes the newest Balakian honoree, Parul Sehgal: Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Nona Balakian, the founding member of the National Book Critics Circle [...]
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Scott McLemee on Balakian Winner Parul Sehgal
Posted in Press, Uncategorized on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
That Which Does Not Kill Us: PW Talks with John Rich
Posted in Interviews, Uncategorized, tagged Interview with John Rich, John Rich, medicine, PTSD, race on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Parul Sehgal — Publishers Weekly, 11/2/2009 Physician Rich investigates how powerfully—and frequently—post-traumatic stress disorders influence the lives of young African-American men who’ve survived a violent assault in Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Reviews, Oct. 5). What was the impetus for the project? Working at Boston City Hospital, I’d see so many young people in pain, so [...]
Searching for Whitopia
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged race, Rich Benjamin, Searching for Whitopia on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Rich Benjamin Parul Sehgal Bookforum Oct. 15, 2009 For two years, Rich Benjamin insinuated himself in some of the fastest-growing communities in America: “Whitopias,” places in Georgia, Idaho, Utah—and even parts of Manhattan’s Upper East Side—where white people are currently migrating in massive numbers. Searching for what these “refugees of diversity” are running from [...]
Tracy Kidder
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, Burundi, Haiti, Interview with Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, northampton, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Leaving New England: PW profiles Tracy Kidder by Parul Sehgal — Publishers Weekly, 6/15/2009 Northampton was the perfect place to meet Tracy Kidder. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award (for The Soul of a New Machine, Back Bay, 1981) wrote about Northampton, Mass., in Home Town (Random, 1991), describing it as “the kind of [...]
A Comrade Lost and Found
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged a comrade lost and found, china, globe and mail, jan wong, jean charest, l'affaire wong, stephan harper on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Who’s Afraid of Jan Wong? by Parul Sehgal — Publishers Weekly, 12/22/2008 A lunch invitation from Jan Wong was not one you wanted to get when the Toronto Globe and Mail‘s highest-paid and most notorious columnist was writing her eponymous “Lunch with Jan Wong.” The column ran from 1996 to 2002, with a stated aim to [...]
