by dalitopia | Jan 10, 2023
“A great read. A researcher has written a memoir that reads like a novel. This is a book about deep friendships and how they do and don’t develop. We learn about the author’s family and how family dynamics produced a sensitive caring individual, then an academic...
by dalitopia | Jan 10, 2023
“A New York Jew sharing an outhouse with a black widow spider at Joshua Tree Monument; a distinguished Professor of Politics wearing a Kleenex box as a hat; Bob’s Beef Buffet and Boysville of Michigan – This is a diverse and compelling tale of Epstein’s...
by dalitopia | Jan 10, 2023
“This is a book that transcends the personal and the professional while wittily and poignantly evoking the meaning of what is true closeness between male colleagues and friends. It is a joy to read and ponder.”
by dalitopia | Jan 10, 2023
“Initially, I anticipated a more scholarly qualitative analysis of the book’s key messages towards the end—some guidance for living a ‘good life’ amongst men friends. I was delighted that this was not the case. So many of we Emeritus Professors feel obliged chisel in...
by dalitopia | Jan 10, 2023
“Epstein’s book is so vivid, so exquisite at times, that it feels more like observing Scorsese’s film, ‘My Voyage to Italy’ than reading a memoir. But his voyages go beyond Rome in time and space. Boyhood, family, friendships found and lost – the...
