cynthia-ozick

What to Read This Fall

Max Read · 09/13/10 01:51PM

Fall is the best season for reading—it's either the weather or a Pavlovian response conditioned by years of schooling. But: What are you going to read? Here's a preview of some of this fall's most interesting titles.

Happy Birthday

cityfile · 04/17/09 06:43AM

Victoria Beckham is turning 35 today. Jennifer Garner is turning 37. Actress Monet Mazur is 33. Liz Phair turns 42. The rapper Redman is turning 39. Architect Costas Kondylis is 69. Writer Cynthia Ozick is 81. Former football star Boomer Esiason is turning 47. Author Nick Hornby is 52. And television exec Henry Schleiff turns 61 today. Weekend birthdays after the jump.

Cynthia Ozick

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:33PM

A novelist, literary critic and essayist, Ozick is considered one of America's foremost fiction writers.