event Deborah Blum
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Cynthia Stalker
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Thu Mar 11
7 pm
Deborah Blum at Open Book
Deborah Blum’s Pulitzer Prize-winning science writing often looks back, instead of focusing on whatever’s the next new-new thing. Whether discussing 19th-century ghost hunters or current-day child-rearing truths first shunned in the 1950s, Blum’s easy-to-digest style and ability to show how the past affects the present has made her a boon to readers typically scared off by the S-word. In her latest book, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder And The Birth Of Forensic Medicine In Jazz Age New York, Blum explores the golden age of the poisoner and a crusading medical examiner and toxicologist who made it possible for David Caruso to get rich by overacting every week in CSI: Miami.
Open Book 4093 N. Oakland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
Deborah Blum’s Pulitzer Prize-winning science writing often looks back, instead of focusing on whatever’s the next new-new thing. Whether discussing 19th-century ghost hunters or current-day child-rearing truths first shunned in the 1950s, Blum’s easy-to-digest style and ability to show how the past affects the present has made her a boon to readers typically scared off by the S-word. In her latest book, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder And The Birth Of Forensic Medicine In Jazz Age New York, Blum explores the golden age of the poisoner and a crusading medical examiner and toxicologist who made it possible for David Caruso to get rich by overacting every week in CSI: Miami.
Updated 03/01/2010
