Driving Mr. Albert
Author Paterniti drives Dr Thomas Harvey across the U.S. from New Jersey to California by way of Kansas and many strange and special stops in-between. These two are ferrying Albert Einstein's dissected brain parts in Tupperware containers stuffed in a duffel bag in the trunk of a rented Buick Skylark to be reunited with the genius' granddaughter, Evelyn Einstein. Mr. Paterniti's fascination with the man who held onto Einstein's brain for decades after ... The Telling Room
This is a true story of a man who cannot get a certain type of cheese out of his mind. Seriously. Michael Paterniti starts the book in 1991 when the young man works as a freelance writer writing a newsletter for Zingerman's, a deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The co-owner, Ari Weinzweig, sold a unique, expensive cheese from Spain called Paramo de Guzman. Ari had met the cheesemaker and was so impressed that, even though it was very expensive, he sold it from...
