Media accounts of Litfest 2018 included coverage of Junot Diaz’s talk by the Daily Collegian and an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette about the talk given by Masha Gessen, John J. McCloy '16 Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy and author of the new The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, and her brother Keith Gessen, author and co-founder of n+1 literary magazine.
The article included a followup to a more lighthearted part of the event, when Keith Gessen took a question from, and gushed about, his high school newspaper advisor, George Abbot White, who drove out from Boston to see the talk. The paper tracked down White for his thoughts.
“All I cared about was that they take things seriously and do something good for the world,” White said about his teaching days.