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Daniel Smith wrote the critically acclaimed book “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety,” a chronicle of his lifelong struggles with anxiety (see feature story, "King of Angst"). According to one reviewer, Daniel “defangs the experience [of living with chronic anxiety] with a winning combination of humor and understanding.” In the book, Daniel refers to Brandeis as “one of the world’s anxiety epicenters” and reveals he broke his cycle of despair by holing up in the library, where he discovered Philip Roth, “my anxiety’s Rosetta Stone.” He began his career as a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly and has published articles, essays and reviews in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. He also served as associate editor of “The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly — 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History.” Daniel holds the Mary Ellen Donnelly Critchlow Endowed Chair in English at the College of New Rochelle in New York. His first book was “Muses, Madmen and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity.”

Photo of Sara Goldfarb ’99, Beth Zweibel ’88, Kim Cohen ’06 and Adam Marks ’06
Sara Goldfarb ’99, Alumni Association board member-at-large and event host Beth Zweibel ’88, Kim Cohen ’06 and Adam Marks ’06 helped send off members of the Class of 2016 from the Connecticut area.Sara Goldfarb ’99, Alumni Association board member-at-large and event host Beth Zweibel ’88, Kim Cohen ’06 and Adam Marks ’06 helped send off members of the Class of 2016 from the Connecticut area.
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