Me and Molly: The Importance of an Audience With New Yorker Staff Writer and Critic Emily Nussbaum

In the 1940s, radio and television pioneer Gertrude Berg was named the nation’s second most admired woman behind Eleanor Roosevelt. Using archival letters from the Special Collections Research Center, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Emily Nussbaum will discuss fans’ parasocial relationship with Berg. A selection of material from the Gertrude Berg collection will be on display.

Nussbaum, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016, is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of 2024’s “Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV.” Nussbaum will also present a screening of Berg’s work earlier that day at 12:30 p.m. at the Bleier Center, 430 Newhouse 3. Insomnia Cookies will be served

Presented by the Goldring arts, style and culture journalism program as part of Syracuse Symposium’s year-long series on “Community,” presented by the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

For more information, or if you require accommodations, please contact Ariana Zink at aezink@syr.edu by March 11.