Joel Z. Waldman

Holly Haffner. Dave Silver - 9.23.24

Joel Waldman is the co-host of the hit true-crime podcast and now book, "Surviving the Survivor," and an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist who worked most recently as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News, covering national politics from Capitol Hill. He has also worked as an investigative reporter for Fox 5 in New York City and for TV-news programs in West Palm Beach, Miami and Tucson. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, Ileana, and his three children, Vida, Zizi, and Judah.

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Communities: Jewish (book is a Holocaust story)

The Writer's Life

Join two authors and a longtime publicist as they explain the joy and heartache of being a writer and promoting their works. What is their writing process? How did they find a publisher? And how have they promoted their finished work?

Student Union Kachina (Seats 100)  
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Mary Lou Falcone, Paul Lisicky, Joel Waldman
Moderator: Patty Machelor

The Ties That Bind

Family trauma can take many shapes and forms. Studies have shown that trauma survivors, including genocide, can pass down their trauma through five generations. Join our authors as they detail through works of fiction and nonfiction how grief and loss impact mental, spiritual, and physical health.

Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 16, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Multigenre
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Maddie Norris, Rudy Ruiz, Joel Waldman
Moderator: Lori Shepherd

Book:

Surviving the Survivor

A Brutally Honest Conversation about Life (& Death) with My Mom: A Holocaust Survivor, Therapist & My Podcast Co-Host
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Post Hill Press
May 2024
ISBN 9798888452387
320 pages