112th: Mindy Thompson Fullilove with Maura Spiegel

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Join us Wednesday, October 28th at 7pm for a reading and conversation with Mindy Thompson Fullilove to celebrate the recent release of The Tao of K-Drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World. Maura Spiegel will join as conversant. In order to facilitate this in-person author event, we will be partially closing the second floor starting at 6:45pm. Please review our Safety guidelines and register for the event using the link above. Bios: Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, DLAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist and the Helen and Robert Fullilove Professor of Community Health at the University of Orange. She has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities. with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. She has published over 100 scientific papers and nine books. Among her books are Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities and Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. Her ninth book, The Tao of K-drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World, is the first book in Oxford University Press’s new Narrative Medicine Series. She has received numerous awards for her work, including two honorary doctorates and honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects. She is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Maura Spiegel, PhD, is a founder and Co-Director of the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She co-authored The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Greek and Polish; The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living on (Anchor/Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club Quality Paperbacks selection. With Rita Charon, MD, PhD, she edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) for seven years. She has written for The New York Times, Newsday, The British Film Institute, and has published articles on the history of the emotions, Charles Dickens, Victorian fashion, diamonds in the movies, among many other topics. Her biography of director Sidney Lumet (St. Martin’s Press) was published in 2019. She teaches fiction and film at Columbia University and Barnard College.

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