Long Island LitFest Presents NPR’s Nina Totenberg, In
Person
Friday, September 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets, which
include a copy of the book, are Public $50 | Members $45
Please join us for an
in-person event with Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award-winning legal affairs
correspondent, as she talks with Newsday’s
Joye Brown about her book, Dinners with
Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships.
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she
cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years
before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called
Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious
about Ruth’s legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary:
declare a law that discriminated “on the basis of sex” to be unconstitutional.
In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply
for credit cards or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained
her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship.
Nina Totenberg appears on NPR’s critically acclaimed news
magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition,
and Weekend Edition, and on NPR podcasts, including the Politics
Podcast and The Docket. Totenberg’s Supreme Court and
legal coverage has won her every major journalism award in broadcasting.
Recognized seven times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence
in legal reporting, she has received more than two dozen honorary degrees. A
frequent TV contributor, she writes for major newspapers, magazines, and law
reviews.
Joye Brown, a columnist and associate editor at Newsday, has covered Long Island for
almost four decades. She has won numerous awards for her work as a reporter,
editor, editorial staff development manager, editorial writer and columnist at
the Newsday Media Group. Before joining Newsday,
she worked as reporter for The News and
Observer in Raleigh, N.C., The
Chicago Tribune and The Mutual News
Network in Washington, D.C. She and her family live in Huntington.
Special thanks to the Dolphin Bookshop in Port Washington
for providing the books. Signings will take place just after the talk and
audience Q&A.
