USC Author Turns a Page at D.C. Stop
October 16, 2009 7:58 AM
Tim Page, who holds a joint appointment at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the USC Thornton School of Music, gave an author talk at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19.
Page was speaking about Parallel Play: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger’s, his well-received new book published by Doubleday on Sept. 8.
Page, who won a Pulitzer Prize for music criticism while at The Washington Post, has received glowing reviews and much attention for his memoir, which is an expansion of a long piece he wrote for The New Yorker in 2007.
“In fascinatingly precise detail and often to pricelessly funny effect, [Page] describes ways in which his efforts to feign normalcy have backfired,” opined The New York Times.
“Its pages teem with warm characters and hilarious, heartbreaking stories. At its heart the story is about otherness, and it explodes stereotypes of Aspies standing aloof from the full deluge of human drama,” wrote another reviewer.
Page said he is “thrilled by the reviews, including the new ones in Los Angeles magazine and the Baltimore Sun,” representing his two hometowns.
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