Me and Molly: The Importance of an Audience

Time: March 18, 2025, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location: 114 Bird Library

Emily Nussbaum (New Yorker Magazine)

Using archival letters from the Special Collections Research Center’s Gertrude Berg Papers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, Nussbaum, discusses fans’ parasocial relationship with Berg, whose creation of Molly Goldberg in “The Goldbergs” made her the nation’s second most admired woman behind Eleanor Roosevelt.