Keeping a father’s diary

Michael Lewis ’82 chronicles diaper changing and toddler outbursts

Published in the June 10, 2009, issue

As Michael Lewis ’82 makes clear in his latest book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, never planned to become a parent. Not that the children with his wife, journalist Tabitha Soren, were a surprise — they weren’t that kind of accident — but...Read more

Poetry lovers converge on Princeton for festival

Published in the June 10, 2009, issue

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, forgot his glasses for one of his readings at Princeton’s inaugural poetry festival. They quickly were retrieved, but it wouldn’t have mattered if he had lost his spectacles. He recited the first few poems —...Read more

The Battle of Gettysburg is set to music

Published in the June 10, 2009, issue

 Granville Wyche Burgess ’69, left, a lyricist and playwright, and composer Paul Bogaev collaborated on a new musical, “Battlecry,” that will premiere June 26 at Riegel Auditorium in Gettysburg, and run through July 26. After touring Gettysburg two years ago...Read more