Lenny in Love by Steven Wander and Beleaguered by Ben Malisow- podcast
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March 31st and April 7th - LENNY IN LOVE by Steven Wander and BELEAGUERED by Ben Malisow
StevenWander- Steven H. Wander, currently an adjunct professor of Art Historyat the University of Connecticut, Stamford was formerly assistantprofessor and chair of the Art History department at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine, from 1976-80. Between then and now he ran thefamily jewelry business with branches in New York, Paris, France andTexas. The short story is the opening chapter of a novel based on theevents of December 5, 1991 when his safe was burglarized, and thethieves made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry(insured). The novel was accepted for publication, but contract issuesprevented its appearance.
He was educated at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley and received his doctorate from StanfordUniversity. In addition to the two novels he has written, the second athriller about the True Cross, entitled Cross, Double Cross, hispublications consist of scholarly articles on the Cyprus Plates, whichare currently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New Yorkaccording to his proposed arrangement, Westminster Abbey, the YorkMinster Chapter House, and Wenceslaus Hollar’s engravings of the tombsof Old St. Paul’s, London. His current project is a full-lengthreevaluation of the Joshua Roll, a tenth-century Byzantine manuscriptabout which he recently spoke at Oxford University.
ProfessorWander has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Grant for GraduateStudy Abroad to the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1973-74, the UCLACenter for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Award in 1975, anAmerican Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-aid for RecentRecipients of the PhD in 1977, and in 2006 he was a member of theNational Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Trajan’s Column:Narratives of War, Civilization, and Commemoration in the Roman Empireat the American Academy in Rome.
BenMalisow- Ben Malisow has been an Air Force officer, an actor, ajournalist, a schoolteacher, a college professor, and a securityconsultant, among other things. His first book 1,001 Things To Do IfYou Dare was published by Adams Media in 2007, and his secondTerrorism, from Chelsea House/Facts on File, came out in 2008. You can find him onlineat www.benmalisow.com. And his dad is a really nice guy.
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