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Overview

Nothing was too large or too small to engage Jerome Stern's interest. Along with the mysteries of the universe, he wrote about kids versus adults, the moods of teachers, and summer camp. He wrote about chocolate, the anxieties of plane travel, and the night fantasies of husbands. And in a suite called "Patient," broadcast for the week on "All Things Considered," he considered his own experience of illness. All in all, these pieces, whether cautioning or celebrating or simply turning over ideas (to see what makes them tick), add up to a freewheeling autobiography of a man who was curious about everything. Now, with this book, readers and listeners can recapture his words and the familiar musing voice.
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Overview

Nothing was too large or too small to engage Jerome Stern's interest. Along with the mysteries of the universe, he wrote about kids versus adults, the moods of teachers, and summer camp. He wrote about chocolate, the anxieties of plane travel, and the night fantasies of husbands. And in a suite called "Patient," broadcast for the week on "All Things Considered," he considered his own experience of illness. All in all, these pieces, whether cautioning or celebrating or simply turning over ideas (to see what makes them tick), add up to a freewheeling autobiography of a man who was curious about everything. Now, with this book, readers and listeners can recapture his words and the familiar musing voice.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
These pieces, mostly broadcast on National Public Radio's All Things Considered by the late Jerome Stern, are indeed mini essays. They are so short, twinkling and offhand that the reader, left with only the printed word, misses the sound of a voice, the inflections that position the wit and calibrate the sentence. Stern picks subjects far and wide, taking possession of them all. He talks about the sanctuary of libraries where no one asks, "Have you cleaned out the catbox yet?" and the joy of books: "I must sing the song of the book, for nothing more voluptuous do I know than sitting with bright pictures, fat upon my lap." He muses of doctors, the idiocies of airplane travel and the brief lives of goldfish. He even turns his eye on his own illness from cancer: "I faint, passing out into a dream of dreaming. This makes me feel wonderful, but must alarm the doctor.... He prefers conversations to melodrama." Collected in this slim volume are the words of a voice now still (Stern died in March 1996) that those who tuned into his quirky, somehow rational flights of verbal fancy will not soon forget. (Aug.)
From The Critics
A range of pieces that prove why Stern was one of the most popular commentators for National Public Radio until his death in 1996.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393332452
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/1/1997
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 0.34 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Library

Summer Camp
Hearing
Remain
Faint
Double Feature
Go Outside
Dread
Reading the Refrigerator
Dessert
Doctor
Mad
Game
Morning News
Looking for Mr. Keats
Closets
Walk
CAT Scan
Cat
Philosophy
Marrow
Still, Life
The Taste of Life
Boxes
Waiting
Ice
Early Start
Biopsy
Uncle
Privacy
Clue
Glasses
Celebrity
Goldfish
Scene
Doodlers
Sympathy
Grass
Blood
Hobby
Rotisserie
X-Ray
Butter Knife
University
Smoking
Bread Crumbs
Spring
Booklove

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