Watch Toobin’s Q&A with Arlington Public School students

Now you can watch professionally edited excerpts of the April 30th Student Q&A with Jeffrey Toobin, online. Or check the APS’ Channel 70 program guide to see when the full program is aired – the next broadcasts will be this coming Friday, May 22nd, at 9pm, and Saturday May 23rd, at 10am.

How was Toobin?

How did it go?  Did you get to ask a question? Did you enjoy the author talk?

Question for Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, will give an author talk tomorrow evening at Central Auditorium, 7pm. What do you want to ask Jeffrey Toobin? Here’s what we’d like to know: What was it like to actually sit down and talk to the Justices?  Did they meet [...]

Photos from the Book Discussion

We had a very successful and well attended community discussion of The Nine this evening.  Ronald Collins is a great speaker – he shared interesting observations, entertained us with his anecdotes, and asked thought-provoking questions. As it’s now 11:30 pm, the revised discussion questions won’t go up until tomorrow.  So for now we have the [...]

Notes as I’m reading

Justice Thomas seems like a nice guy.  I have serious reservations about anyone who is 100% convinced he’s right all the time (as evidenced by the way he only chooses people who agree with him completely to be his clerks), but I’m also impressed with his kindness. Chief Justice Renquist lived in Arlington.  Does anyone know where?  And [...]

Online discussion starts Today!

Starting today, our Arlington Reads Contributors will begin posting their thoughts, reactions and questions about The Nine here on the ArlingtonReads blog.  Our contributors so far include Alex Z (Library reader) and Chris C. (Community reader), with more to come soon. We welcome you to join in, and share your reactions here to both the [...]

Wajahat Ali interview with Toobin

We just found an interesting interview that Wajahat Ali – an attorney, blogger and writer for the magazine Counterpunch – did with Jeffrey Toobin in March 2008.  Ali describes himself as a Pakistani Muslim American who is neither a terrorist nor a saint. He is a playwright, essayist, humorist, and Attorney at Law, whose work, [...]

A letter from Library Director Diane Kresh

Hello Arlington Readers, What better time than now to take a look at that tradition-bound, mysterious group of nine very powerful people known as the United States Supreme Court? With a new president promising “change” and a number of Court vacancies likely, Arlington Reads 2009 will explore the context of headlines soon-to-come through this year’s [...]

BOOK GROUPS – kits still available

Contact dcross@arlingtonva.us for Instant Book Kit availability; Ronald K.L. Collins, a First Amendment Center scholar is set to moderate our Community Book Discussion of THE NINE: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF THE SUPREME COURT on April 13th at Central Auditorium.

Win a Free Copy of THE NINE: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF THE SUPREME COURT

Do you want to spend more time with “The Nine” than just the 3-week Library borrowing period?  Sign up here for a chance to win your own copy of the Arlington Reads 2009 featured book, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court” by Jeffrey Toobin. Winners will be notified by email or [...]