He will be speaking at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, at 4:30 pm today, Feb. 22. The event is free and open to the public.
In a long review essay in The Nation, the critic John Palattella wrote that Samuels' achievement was "staggering" and compared his work favorably to that of Didion and Tom Wolfe: "Like Didion, Samuels investigates the vortex of American life, a feeling of weightlessness and existential drift that can swallow people whole, but he reports on it in an entirely different manner."--Mark Oppenheimer
