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- 205 reads
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Two Sides of Friendship– Jonathan Rosen & Will Schwalbe
Producer:
- 205 reads
Description:
- Jonathan Rosen and Will Schwalbe were both Yale students in the mid-1980’s. When Jonathan and his family moved to New Rochelle, CT in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and his neighbor Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they were both accepted into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-fight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital, diagnosed with schizophrenia. It went downhill from there. Will Schwalbe met his lifelong friend at Yale. By the time Will was a junior, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the theater people, the writers, and a handful of visual artists and comp lit majors. He also knew exactly who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in packs, and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely. Will, in his turquoise jean jacket and Prince haircut, might only encounter jocks at his own peril. All this changed dramatically when Will collided with Chris Maxey, known as Maxey. He was physically imposing, loud, and a star wrestler. Thanks to the strangely liberating circumstances of a little-known secret society at Yale, the two forged a bond that would remain a mainstay in each other’s lives for forty years.
- Jonathan Rosen is the author of two novels and two non-fiction books. His new book is 'Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions.' He lives with his family in New York City.
- Will Schwalbe is currently an editor at Macmillan. He is the New York Times best-selling author of three books of non-fiction, including 'We Should Not Be Friends,' and co-author of another. He lives in New York City with his husband, David Cheng.
Production Date:
Saturday, October 14, 2023 - 14:15
