NY in LA to talk about Iraq

The New York Review of Books is co-sponsoring a panel of journalists this Sunday at Occidental College on "The Media and Iraq: What Went Wrong?" The Review's co-editor Robert B. Silvers is one of the panelists, along with frequent contributors Mark Danner, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror, and Michael Massing, author of Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. The moderator is Steve Wasserman, editor of the L.A. Times Book Review and co-founder of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, which also is sponsoring the event. It's free at 2 p.m. in the Johnson Student Center’s Morrison Lounge.

And for the archives: In Googling around on this, I came across the old news that Paul Holdengräber, who resigned abruptly in April from the Institute for Art and Cultures he founded at LACMA, surfaced in June as Director of the Public Education Program at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library.