On Three Pillars: Torah, Worship, and the Practice of Loving Kindness, The Synagogues of Brooklyn
Thomas Roma, a two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York. He is the author ofIn Prison Air, Sicilian Passage, Show & Tell(powerHouse Books, 2005, 2003, 2002),Sanctuary(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002),Enduring Justice(powerHouse Books, 2001),Higher Ground(Distributed Art Publishers Inc., 1999),Sunset Park(Smithsonian Books, 1998),Found in Brooklyn(W.W. Norton & Co., 1996), andCome Sunday(Museum of Modern Art/Abrams, 1996). Director of Photography at Columbia University, Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.Phillip Lopate, born in Brooklyn in 1943, has written three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, a collection of his movie criticism, and a biographical monograph. Lopate’s essays have appeared inThe Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He currently teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.