Me and Molly: The Importance of an Audience

Emily Nussbaum (New Yorker Magazine)

Using archival letters from the Special Collections Research Center’s Gertrude Berg Papers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Nussbaum discusses fans’ parasocial relationship with Berg, whose creation of Molly Goldberg in “The Goldbergs” made her the nation’s second most admired woman behind Eleanor Roosevelt.

This event is part of the Humanities Center’s 2024-2025 Syracuse Symposium series on “Community.”