Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning Book

'This book was an act of self-disclosure that brought the instructor closer to his students by doing exactly what he asks them to do each week....Unlike other professors who put their own books on the syllabus in order to sell their books, I think Jeff does it because his books really are the best for his courses. In Dying to Teach he not only makes himself vulnerable to the reader, but he shows his vulnerability to former students through the reading of his eulogy. And as some of his students remarked, it is important for the student to see the professor as a human being, to understand the reasons for his empathic teaching methods, and that there is life beyond the walls of the classroom.' - taken from my own paper for Jeff Berman's class on writing about love and loss