Goldin, D. Boswell and Books. Playing Catchup in Paperback on Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone - December 31, 2009 Click here for PDF Click here for Article
NPR makes Cutting for Stone a 'Must Read' for book clubs - December 15, 2009 Click here for PDF Click here for Article
NPR - November 20, 2009 All Things Considered - Story Specialists: Doctors Who Write Click here for PDF Click here for Audio
El Paso Times - July 20, 2009 Ex-El Pasoan to revisit for book signing
The Herald - July 13, 2009 The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Newsletter - Novelist Abraham Verghese Writes of Addis Ababa
The Raffles Conversation - July 4, 2009 At a fictional medical conference in Boston, the legendary doctor conducting the session asks the brightest and best gathered in the room a curious question...
ALOUD Series - Mar 16, 2009 Los Angeles Library Foundation?s ALOUD Series -- Listen to Abraham Verghese in conversation with award-winning actor Hector Elizondo whose successful career spans 40 years with film credits that include "Love In The Time of Cholera," "The Music Within," The Flamingo Kid," "Nothing in Common," "Runaway Bride," and "American Gigolo."...
Housecalls - Mar-Apr, 2009 In an age of technology, when doctors will not declare that your finger has been cut off unless confirmed by a scan or an X-ray, Dr Abraham Verghese takes pleasure in teaching the dying art of bedside medicine. When a doctor examines a patient he establishes a...
Tavis Smiley - Apr 14, 2009 Abraham Verghese is an award-winning author and practicing physician. A professor of internal medicine at Stanford and adjunct professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center, he's served on faculties in Iowa and Tennessee. He's also a graduate of the...
NPR.org - Mar 10, 2009 Book Tour is a Web feature and podcast hosted by NPR's Lynn Neary. Each week, NPR presents leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. "My ambition as a writer," Abraham Verghese says of Cutting for Stone, "was to tell a...
Authorlink - Feb 27, 2009 Karen Heise is a regular columnist for Authorlink. She has edited online and print media and published fiction, poetry, essays, and academic articles in Nebula, Wazee, Janus Head, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, and elsewhere. Watch for her interviews on Authorlink...
Northeast Public Radio, WAMC, Albany, NY - Feb 24, 2009 Joe Donahue speaks with Abraham Verghese about how he came to write his new novel "Cutting for Stone."...
San Jose Mercury News - Feb 22, 2009 Nearly two decades ago, when Abraham Verghese put his career as a physician on hold to try his hand at fiction, he knew he wanted to write an "epic medical novel."Beyond that, things were a little vague. Verghese, an internist specializing in infectious...
Toronto Star - Feb 21, 2009 Reading Dr. Abraham Verghese's first novel Cutting for Stone, with its descriptions of doctors caring for patients, it's no surprise the author is considered a master clinician who treats bedside diagnosis like an art best performed by the hands, eyes and ears...
New Indian Express - Feb 19, 2009 Why did you choose Ethiopia and not any of the regular places that mark diaspora fiction? I chose Ethiopia for the simple reason that I was born there and spent my childhood there, so I was following the old adage of ?write what you know.? I knew the geography....
San Antonio Express-News, Bennett - Feb 18, 2009 What began nearly two decades ago with an image of ?a beautiful South Indian nun suddenly and precipitously going into labor? has grown into a spellbinding 534-page novel, a medical epic that brought its author full circle to a warm ?homecoming?...
National Public Radio, Diane Rehm Show - Feb 17, 2009 Host Diane Rehm talks with Abraham Verghese about his sweeping medical saga set in India, Ethiopia, and New York City....
BBC World Forum - Feb, 16 2009 BBC?s World Forum: The BBC talks with Abraham Verghese about his first novel, "Cutting for Stone" and asks him about his thoughts on the U.S. healthcare system....
Washington Post, Diagnosis - Feb 16, 2009 NASHVILLE Nearly two decades ago, when Abraham Verghese put his career as a physician on hold to try his hand at fiction, he knew he wanted to write an "epic medical novel." Beyond that, things were a little vague. Verghese, an internist specializing...
Psychology of Medicine, U of Western Ontario - Feb 15, 2009 Over the last year, in articles and interviews, Dr. Abraham Verghese, the critically acclaimed author of two nonfiction books and a professor of medicine at Stanford University, has been reminding doctors, medical educators and medical students about...
Washington Post Express - Feb 13, 2009 IF YOU DIDN'T already know that Abraham Verghese was a physician as well as a writer, then you might get that distinct impression reading his first novel, "Cutting for Stone." Following a pair of twins from their birth at a mission hospital in Ethiopia...
Stanford Daily - Feb 13, 2009 Like most tenured professors at the Stanford School of Medicine, Prof. Abraham Verghese is a distinguished educator and physician. But Verghese has also found time to make a name for himself in the literary arena. His first book, My Own Country, tells his...
The Hindu - Feb 13, 2009 Abraham Verghese?s Cutting for Stone centres on the twins, Marion and Shiva Stone, the sons of a secret liaison be-tween a Malayali nun and an English doctor. The boys grow up in a rudimen-tary hospital in Addis Ababa with Genet, the daughter of a servant...
NBC Reporter Laurence Scott interviews Abraham Verghese about Cutting for Stone ? Feb 13, 2009
India Today, Interview - Feb 12, 2009 Abraham Verghese is the Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University, USA, and the author of two best-selling books, My Own Country and The Tennis Partner. Cutting for Stone...
The Leonard Lopate Show - Feb 12, 2009 Dr. Abraham Verghese was lauded for his memoir about his time as a doctor in Tennessee during the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Now he has turned his skills to fiction writing with his novel Cutting for Stone and talks with Leonard Lopate...Listen to this thoughtful interview....
Conversations with Mira Nair - Feb 12, 2009 Over a decade ago, Mira Nair turned Dr Abraham Verghese's best-selling memoir My Own Country into a well-received telly film starring Naveen Andrews. On Wednesday, Nair and Verghese met at Asia Society in New York in a conversation discussing life and the....
Asia Society, Mira Nair Interview - Feb 11, 2009 Filmmaker Mira Nair and writer and physician Abraham Verghese sat down together at the Asia Society to discuss Verghese?s debut novel, Cutting for Stone. The central topics of conversation featured the transition from nonfiction to fiction...View the video...
Daily Beast, Tina Brown - Feb 11, 2009 It?s a big, sweeping family saga about twin brothers born of the secret union between a formidable, aloof surgeon and a nun at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. The father, Dr. Stone, disappears immediately after...
Ethiosun - Feb 8, 2009 In 1994, an Ethiopian-born doctor named Abraham Verghese published a breathtakingly beautiful memoir called ?In My Own Country,? about dealing with the AIDS epidemic in a small Tennessee town. A second memoir titled ?The Tennis Partner? followed, establishing...
Sunday Salon - Feb 8, 2009 I defy anyone to be unmoved by this saga of twin boys, Marion and Shiva Stone, born in 1954 to a British father and Indian mother in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They were born at Missing Hospital, which was how Ethiopians (mis)pronounced Mission Hospital. Marion...
Book Lady's Blog, Review - Feb 6, 2009 I?ve been finished with this book for almost a week, and for almost a week, I?ve been trying to figure out how to describe how wonderful this book is and somehow manage to do the story even a little bit of justice. But every time I try to write or talk about it...
Boston Bibliophile Blog - Feb 4, 2009 If you've been following me on Twitter or read last week's Friday Finds, you know that I've been reading Abraham Verghese's debut novel Cutting for Stone. The author of two nonfiction works and a practicing surgeon, Verghese shows himself here to be a magnificent...
San Francisco Chronicle, H Benson - Feb 4, 2009 Growing up in a middle-class Indian family in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese says he had four career choices: "Doctor, lawyer, engineer ... or failure."He didn't have his elder brother's dazzling aptitude for math, so engineering was out of the question. He loved...
Stanford Medical Center Report - Feb 4, 2009 Long a champion of hands-on medicine, Abraham Verghese, MD, arrived at Stanford in December 2007 to serve as professor of medicine and senior associate chair for a new program in the theory and practice of medicine. The author of two widely acclaimed nonfiction...
Human Whisperer - Jan-Feb 2009 It takes Abraham Verghese only a few minutes to stroll from his public office to his secret one. His main office in the department of medicine contains the medical handbooks, the imposing desk, the ready assistant who copes with the physician?s complicated...
