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Rich Cohen in conversation with Ian Frazier

Who was the Banana Man? Beloved writer and editor Rich Cohen (Sweet and Low, Israel is Real) answers this question and others you didn’t know you had about your favorite yellow breakfast fruit in The Fish That Ate the Whale, a biography of Samuel Zemurray, a Russian Jew who emigrated to Alabama in 1891 and went on to lead the United Fruit Company, which took an iron hold of Central America through banana exports.

Lovers of history and bananas alike will appreciate Cohen’s rollicking look at the life of Zemurray, whom Booklist called “a sort of real world Charles Foster Kane.”

Cohen will be in conversation with New Yorker writer Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia.











When: Mon., Jul. 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Where: McNally Jackson
52 Prince St.
212-274-1160
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Who was the Banana Man? Beloved writer and editor Rich Cohen (Sweet and Low, Israel is Real) answers this question and others you didn’t know you had about your favorite yellow breakfast fruit in The Fish That Ate the Whale, a biography of Samuel Zemurray, a Russian Jew who emigrated to Alabama in 1891 and went on to lead the United Fruit Company, which took an iron hold of Central America through banana exports.

Lovers of history and bananas alike will appreciate Cohen’s rollicking look at the life of Zemurray, whom Booklist called “a sort of real world Charles Foster Kane.”

Cohen will be in conversation with New Yorker writer Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia.

Buy tickets/get more info now