The Best Minds: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosen

Join acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen for a discussion of his recent paperback issue The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, a haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved in 1998. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.

Admission: $36 
Tickets include refreshments and a paperback copy of The Best Minds. Additional copies will be available for purchase and signing at the end of the evening, thanks to our friends at Bronx River Books.

About the Author

 Jonathan Rosen is the author of two novels: Eve’s Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning, and two non-fiction books: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds and The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous anthologies. He lives with his family in New York City.

 

 

Praise for The Best Minds

Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, and People; one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023.

“Brave and nuanced … an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —New York Times

“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —Wall Street Journal