Sweet and Low: A Family Story | Rich Cohen | Talks at Google

On Wednesday, June 20th 2007 Google NYC welcomed Rich Cohen to speak about his latest book Sweet and Low: A Family Story. Rich's work has appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, among many other publications, and he is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. "Sweet and Low by Richard Cohen bills itself as 'the unauthorized true story of one Brooklyn family.' And what a family. Cohen, the disinherited grandson of the artificial sweetener Sweet 'n' Low's inventor, combines two parts Horatio Alger-memoir, one part cultural commentary and three parts personal criticism into a fascinating snapshot of American life, immigrant experience and a broad sermon on the perils of fortune." -Jeremy Pugh, Amazon.com " Cohen...has a terrific eye for detail, the little things that affix people and places in our memories, the gestures and miscues that shape family history". - Kate Zernike, NY Times