CitySquash Students Spend An Evening With New Yorker Writer Tad Friend
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July 26, 2012 - As part of CitySquash’s Career Dinner series, eight CitySquash college and high school students shared a meal with New Yorker staff writer (and avid squash player) Tad Friend. The group discussed not only Tad’s insights about journalism and the writing process–including an in depth discussion of Tad’s 2003 New Yorker piece “Jumpers” which the students read beforehand– but also advice about choosing a line of work. The dinner is a part of a larger series that connects CitySquash students to professionals in various fields to talk about the industry and career choice. Special thanks go out to CitySquash supporters Angela and Michael Laskoff for hosting the event.
If you are interested in talking to students as part of the Career Dinner Series, please contact Director of College Prep Peter Feldman at 718-220-7400 or peter.feldman@citysquash.org
Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the magazine’s Letter from California, and has examined suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, Los Angeles’s fixation on police pursuits, the cemetery entrepreneur Tyler Cassity, the William Morris agent David Wirtschafter, and the electric car magnate Elon Musk. His work for the magazine has been chosen for The Best American Travel Writing, The Best American Crime Reporting, and The Best Technology Writing.
Before joining The New Yorker, Friend was a contributing editor at a number of publications, including Esquire. He is the author of a memoir, “Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor”(2009), and “Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands,” (2001), a collection of his articles.
Friend lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Amanda Hesser, and their twins.
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