Reviews and Articles for Wendy and the Lost Boys
ArtInfo, January 31, 2012| Interview
Patrick Pacheco
Los Angeles Review of Books, November 26, 2011| A mini-play and sort-of review
Joy Horowitz and Deborah Frost
“Currently, they share a mutual obsession with Julie Salamon’s biography of Wendy Wasserstein”
The New York Times, November 16, 2011| Review
Charles Isherwood, Holiday Gift Guide
“immensely enjoyable biography”
St. Louis Jewish Light, October 26, 2011| Review/Interview
Patricia Corrigan
The New York Times, October 21, 2011| Review
Charles Isherwood “Arts Beat”
“Ms. Salamon provides a captivating look at the New York theater world in the 1980s, when Ms. Wasserstein’s career took off.”
Ct Post.com, September 29, 2011|Interview
Joe Meyers column
The Day.com, September 28, 2011|Interview
Amy Barry column
Writerinterrupted.com, September 17, 2011| Review
“This book inspired me, as Wasserstein inspired many: what we write matters.”
Baltimore Jewish Times, September 16, 2011| Review
“ Salamon’’s research into Wasserstein’s life fills in the gaps of the Wendy persona the adoring public didn’t know existed.”
National Post, September 16, 2011| Review
“Respectful but never fawning”
Joan Hamburg WOR September 13, 2011| Radio Interview
Joan Hamburg talks to Julie about “Wendy and the Lost Boys”
The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC, September 12, 2011| Radio Interview
Guest host Elliott Forrest interviews Julie Salamon
The Jewish Journal, September 14 ,2011| Review
“Page turning biography”
The New Yorker, September 12, 2011| Review
“Excellent…in a sense, Salamon’s voice is like that of a Wasserstein character, a late-night girlfriend who tells you the truth, but confidentially, and sideways.”
New York Daily News , September 11, 2011| Interview
9/11 Remembered
TheaterAdvisor, September 8, 2011| Interview
“Read this book. Even if you’ve never been to a Broadway play, even if you’re not Jewish. Because you’ll find out what it takes to make it. And the costs thereof.”
Adaumbelle’s Quest, September 4, 2011| Q&A with author
Interview with Adam Rothenberg
The Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2011| Review
“Top notch…a penetrating biography.”
Oprah,com, September 2011| Review
Wendy and the Lost Boys is one of “18 books to watch for in September”
Jewish Forward September 9, 2011| Review
“well-researched, engrossing”
Washington Post , September 1, 2011
“astute…[Salamon]seems to have gained the trust of all the key living players in Wasserstein’s life…”
The Daily Beast, August 30, | Essay
“What Wendy Knew” by Julie Salamon
Tablet, August 30,2011| Review
“After reading Wendy and the Lost Boys, it’s easy to feel that the best play about[Wasserstein's] life has yet to be written—and that it wouldn’t be a comedy.”
Playbill.com , August 28,2011| Review
“ illustrates the career and life of Wendy Wasserstein in smashingly good, can’t-put-the-book-down read-through-the night form.”
San FranciscoChronicle ,August 28,2011| Review
“immensely readable, journalistically scrupulous”
The New York Times Sunday Book Review, August 28,2011| Review
“highly readable in the way profiles are, spinning a colorful narrative of failure and fame, disappointment and satisfaction, while hitting all the right marks.”
The Seattle Times, August 27,2011| Review/Interview
“compelling, revealing and insightful new biography”
The Miami Herald ,August 27,2011| Review
“entertaining and accessible.”
Barnes and Noble Review, August 26,2011| Review
“Penetrating new biography…”
Macleans, August 26, 2011
“The narrative is packed with pathos and drama, along with insight into incestuous Broadway politics…”
St. Louis Jewish Light, August 24, 2011| Review
“a revealing, sometimes funny, often moving story of a first-generation American Jewish woman”
Entertainment Weekly, September 2, 2011| Review
“fascinating….deeply personal portrait”
Chicago Sun Times , August 24, 2011| Review
“Compulsively readable….”
The Hairpin.com, August 23,2011| Review
“Wendy and the Lost Boys is tremendously strong on Wasserstein’s family, her secrecy, her entourage of devoted friends, her relationship with money and class, and the marvelous ambivalence of her plays.”
Wall Street Journal Speakeasy,August 22, 2011 | Q&A with author
Interview with Barbara Chai
New York Daily News , August 22,2011| Review
“… a finely detailed, nuanced portrait of Wasserstein’s life and times.”
CurtainUp, August 22, 2011| Review
“….while biographies don’t usually fall into the ‘can’t put it down good read’ category for me, this book is just that.”
The New York Journal of Books ,August 22, 2011| Review
“…well-researched, beautifully rendered”
The New York Times Sunday Review, August 21| Essay
“In Defense of Secrecy” by Julie Salamon
Theatremania.com, August 20, | Review
“ Salamon…fathomlessly plumbs the late dramatist’s complex life”
The Progressive Reader,August 18, 2011 | Q&A with author
Interview with Barbara Jones
The Associated Press, August 18, 2011| Review
“a thorough and engaging account”
Playbill.com, August 18, 2011 | Q&A with author
Interview with Mervyn Rothstein
NPR Morning Edition, August 18, 2011 | Report
Interview with Susan Stamberg
The New York Times,August 17, 2011 | Review
“ shrewd, gripping…more like a novel than a biography”
NPR.org, August 17, 2011 | Review
“a book as entertaining and personable as its subject”
Bloomberg.com, August 17,2011| Review
“Salamon is a gifted storyteller”
Examiner.com, August 16, 2011 | Q&A with author
Interview with Paige Crutcher
Vogue, August 16, 2011 | Review
“as this biography shows, [Wasserstein's] dramatic presence—real, unflinching, and bitingly honest, far from the gauzy Neverland of cultural celebrity—hasn’t dimmed at all.”
The Economist, August 13, 2011 | Review
“….engaging new biography”
Examiner.com, August 10, 2011 | Review
“In Julie Salamon’s beautifully written authorized biography of the playwright, Wendy Wasserstein is brought back to the stage for her final bow. Wendy and the Lost Boys is a journey through the many stages of love and its ability to break a heart, shape ambition and foster genius.”
Jewish Woman Magazine, August, 2011 | Article
“…written with much sensitivity and insight.”
Moment Magazine, July/August, 2011 | Review
“…Wendy and the Lost Boys is full of laughs and full of anguish. It might remind you of a Wendy Wasserstein play.”
Connecticut Post, July 27, 2011 | Review
“Julie Salamon gave us what is probably the best book ever written about the production of a movie — “The Devil’s Candy” — and on August 22 she will deliver a terrific glimpse into the New York theater scene of the past 40 years, ‘Wendy and the Lost Boys’…”
Library Journal, June 15, 2011 | Review
“…[Salamon] richly details the life of Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) in this first authorized biography. In it are all the big names of New York theater from the 1960s–70s, but don’t read this book if it’s gossip you’re after. Read it because Wasserstein’s life was full of drama and because her characters just begin to approach the truth of her story, one that deserves its own dramatization… VERDICT You will laugh and you will, most assuredly, cry. Enthusiastically recommended.”
Kirkus Reviews, June 1, 2011 | Review [starred]
“The book excels…in elucidating Wasserstein’s complex personality and the creative, unconventional life she fashioned for herself, balancing fraught but committed family ties with a busy social life teeming with devoted friends…Perceptive and empathetic, but also gently unsparing—a superbly nuanced portrait.”
Booklist, June 1, 2011 | Review [starred]
“…this fascinating biography reveals a whirling dervish of a woman who seems much more lost than her boys. To those who thought that Wasserstein’s writings, Pulitzer Prize notwithstanding, were heavy on navel-gazing, Salamon delivers the back story…and a sympathetic yet layered portrait of a warm woman who was able to elevant and belittle herself in the same sentence, who was both driven and never quite certain where she wanted to go.”
New York Daily News, May 29, 2011 | Preview
“Julie Salamon is a helluva journalist and her “Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein” (8/18) is a helluva story.”
Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2011| Article
“What novels and biographies are coming? What’s quirky? What should the kids be reading? Let our special reading guide of new and forthcoming titles help you decide what to read this summer.”
Publisher’s Weekly, May 11, 2011 | Review
“Salamon brings full circle the life of Wendy Wasserstein in this insightful biography of the Pulitzer–and Tony-winning playwright…(this) thoroughly researched account of a too-short life brings readers as close as anyone.”
Reviews and Articles for Hospital
- One Book, One Hospital, July 2009
Hospital will be featured as the July choice for the Nebraska Hospital Association’s One Book One Hospital reading program. - Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2008 | Review
Wall Street Journal recommends Hospital as one of five best health books of 2008 - Freakonomics Q&A with author Julie Salamon, June 30, 2008
Death, Birth, Money, and Diversity: A Q&A With the Author of Hospital - Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, May 28, 2008
Julie Salamon speaks with Brian Lehrer about her year following the action at Brookyn’s Maimonides Hospital - Los Angeles Times Commentary by Julie Salamon, June 18,2008 | Review
Healthy Respect. Nasty doctors? Testy nurses? Some hospitals are saying enough… - Prescriptions for Health Reform: Interview with Julie Salamon, August 7, 2009
Interview by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation - PBS Open Mind January 2009
Three part interview with Hospital author Julie Salamon
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 - WRNN-TV July 23, 2008
Healing Our Healthcare: The Story of Maimonides Medical Center - Search Magazine, July/August, 2008
Hospital or Holy Ground? - Interview on Psychojourney, July 12, 2008
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Julie Salamon - Sam Tanenhaus, editor New York Times Book Review, July 3, 2008
Interview about Hospital - WILL Public Media, June 30,2008
Interview on WILL Public Media, University of Illinois, an NPR station - WMNF Tampa Public Radio, June 6,2008
WMNF’s Mitch Perry interviews Julie Salamon about Hospital. - New Hampshire Public Radio, May 29,2008
Virginia Prescott interviews Julie Salamon on New Hampshire Public Radio about Hospital.
