{"id":207677,"date":"2019-11-07T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=207677"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:43:55","slug":"jonathan-greenberg-publishes-book-with-sunday-morning-correspondent-and-humorist-mo-rocca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2019\/11\/07\/jonathan-greenberg-publishes-book-with-sunday-morning-correspondent-and-humorist-mo-rocca\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Greenberg Publishes Book with Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=greenbergj\">Jonathan Greenberg<\/a> has published <em>Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving<\/em>, co-written with Mo Rocca of CBS Sunday Morning.\u00a0 Launched in tandem with Rocca\u2019s #1-rated podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobituaries.com\/the-book\/\">Mobituaries<\/a>, and published by Simon &amp; Schuster, this collection of essays memorializes an array of people&#8211;and things&#8211;that deserve to be remembered, offering new insights into their historical and cultural significance, in a style that blends humor and insight.\u00a0 Subjects range from Thomas Paine to Fanny Brice, from the Black Congressmen of Reconstruction to the Station Wagon of the 1950s and \u201860s. <em>Mobituaries\u00a0<\/em>is a thoughtful and unconventional account of the people who made life worth living for the rest of us, one that asks us to think about who gets remembered, and why.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second book Greenberg has published this year.\u00a0 Last spring his <em><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/cambridge-introduction-to-satire\/F7A062198759B001E4349D7DE3A1F76C\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Introduction to Satire<\/a> was published by Cambridge University Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jonathan Greenberg has published Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving, co-written with Mo Rocca of CBS Sunday Morning.\u00a0 Launched in tandem with Rocca\u2019s #1-rated podcast, Mobituaries, and published by Simon &amp; Schuster, this collection of essays memorializes an array of people&#8211;and things&#8211;that deserve to be remembered, offering new insights into their historical and cultural significance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":207697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-57_english-department","category-faculty-news","category-faculty-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207680,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207677\/revisions\/207680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}