When danger threatened him, he never got hurt. He knew just what to do.—Bert the Turtle In 1950, Mayor William O’Dwyer announced a plan to protect New York City school children, not from active shooters, but from the atomic bomb. The plan—which continued for a...
Carol was an Adjunct Associate Professor of writing at NYU, College of Applied Liberal Arts from 1997–2020. She is one of the founding faculty at Gotham Writers Workshop. “Objects of Desire,” appearing in Lilith and Whetstone Literary Review was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction. Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, with a foreword by John Le Carré, was nominated for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her articles, essays, short stories, reviews, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications all over the world. Resident of London for a decade, she was a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement. She and her journalist husband returned to the United States so that their London-born daughter could experience an American childhood. But that’s another story.