Camp Cooking, and Children

Reading from his own works, longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier ’73 recounts the perils of preparing “breakfast in a paper bag”...

Reading from his own works, longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier ’73 recounts the perils of preparing “breakfast in a paper bag” (from “Bad Advice,” in his 2003 collection The Fish’s Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors).

From "Bad Advice" (3m 6s)

In the title essay of his newest collection, Lamentations of the Father, Frazier elucidates some colorful realities of living with offspring. An original humorist who also probes deeply into history to understand our nation’s changing culture, Frazier is profiled by Craig Lambert in the September-October 2008 Harvard Magazine.

"Lamentations of the Father" (9m 19s)

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