RaveThe Star TribuneOne of the best biographies I’ve ever read. It’s as though she videotaped his life and the lives of everyone he’s ever spoken to, edited out all the boring parts and left us a book rich in details and anecdotes ... Her achievement is all the more remarkable because Michaels and his Saturday Night Live already are reasonably well known, but even more so because he is a complex, not easily definable subject.
Nina Totenberg
RaveStar TribuneDinners With Ruth is really three excellent books: a memoir of Nina Totenberg\'s relatively blessed life; an anecdotal account of Ruth Bader Ginsburg\'s; and, finally, a paean to the bond of friendship, which, like fine wine, gets better with age. It is so engagingly written, so captivating, it\'s difficult not to feel at least a little jealous of Totenberg, who seems to have it all ... The book is filled with so much love it\'s almost an antidote to the daily news section. Almost.
