With flu shots hard to find in New Jersey, Charles Ornstein decided to get one in Los Angeles.
It wasn’t the only reason he was in town, of course. Ornstein, a ProPublica senior reporter who covers healthcare, traveled to Los Angeles to discuss retail clinics at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, and so decided to stop by one for a vaccination.
“Nobody was waiting. I got my shot and I got out in five minutes,” Ornstein said.
Erika Schickel came to Los Angeles 20 years ago from New York City. “I came here as an actress and I wound up a writer,” said Schickel, an essayist, playwright, and author of the momoir You’re Not The Boss Of Me: Adventures Of A Modern Mom
by Laura Riding
I took another day,
I moved to another city,
I opened a new door to me.
Then again a last night came.
My bed said: ‘To sleep and back again?’
I said: “This time go forward.’
Between 1993 and 2001, Taylor Branch conducted 79 confidential interviews with his good friend, President Bill Clinton. The sessions were secret enough that even Clinton staffers were kept largely in the dark. Branch will visit Zócalo on Thursday to discuss his new book based on those conversations, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
Roberto Suro is a veteran print journalist with extensive experience in foreign, domestic and Washington coverage as a senior staffer for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Prior to joining the School of Journalism faculty in August 2007, he was director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization in Washington D.C. which he founded in 2001 as a project of the Annenberg School for Communication. Below, he tells us more about himself.
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