Rachel Cromidas
I dressed up as Nellie Bly for the 6th grade biography fair because the role of Emily Dickinson was already taken.
I've spent the past three years covering city education, politics, business, and crime for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, out of Chicago and New York City. I also blogged extensively about education policy for GothamSchools.org.
I split my time between New York and Chicago, and now New Haven, Conn. too. I'm on a relentless hunt for the next story/project/gig to tackle.
I've spent the past three years covering city education, politics, business, and crime for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, out of Chicago and New York City. I also blogged extensively about education policy for GothamSchools.org.
I split my time between New York and Chicago, and now New Haven, Conn. too. I'm on a relentless hunt for the next story/project/gig to tackle.
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Posts tagged "Arthur Gelb"
I think I was the first to learn about the work in progress that was to make [Edward] Albee’s Broadway reputation two years later. He told me that he was calling it Exorcism and that it dealt with “two couples in the course of a degrading, drunken two a.m. party. The older couple have created a fantasy child of nineteen, whom they drag out to advance their divergent viewpoints. The father eventually decides the child must be exorcised.” With a wan smile, he added, “I have a subtitle for it. It is, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Arthur Gelb, in City Room, his 600-page memoir of his lifetime working for the New York Times,(from copy boy, to theater critic, to managing editor) a.k.a. my new favorite book obsession.
