Jewish Book Festival brochure

Non-Fiction by Two Authors With Naples Connections
1:00 - 3:30 pm • Naples Conf. Ctr.
Marc E. Agronin • The End of Old Age
Old age is too often defined as a time of loss and decline. In The End of Old Age,
Dr. Marc Agronin presents a more hopeful view of the aging process through
inspiring stories of a Holocaust survivor who journeys back to Auschwitz each
year with Jewish students, a famous aging artist who reinvented himself after
nearly dying, as well as through other individuals. The End of Old Age concludes
with a practical action plan to help readers identify and leverage their
own emerging strengths to live with greater purpose and meaning.
Dr. Marc Agronin is a renowned geriatric psychiatrist who directs the memory
center and research program at Miami Jewish Health. He has written ten
other books on related subjects as well as articles for The New York Times and
The Wall Street Journal.
David Litt • Thanks, Obama
Sponsored by
Naples Senior Center at JFCS
At age 24, David Litt became one of the youngest White House speechwriters
in history. Along with issues like climate change and criminal justice reform,
he was the president’s go-to writer for comedy. As the lead writer on the White
House Correspondents’ Dinner speech (the “State of the Union of jokes”), he
was responsible for some of President Obama’s most memorable moments. Litt
takes us inside his eight years on the front lines of Obamaworld. His behindthe-scenes
anecdotes answer questions you never knew you had: What’s the
classiest White House men’s room? How do you force the National Security
Council to stop hitting “reply-all” on every email?
David Litt, in addition to writing for the White House, has written for The
Onion, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times.
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