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Alvin Hall
Alvin Hall is a financial educator, award-winning television and radio broadcaster, best-selling author, and art collector. His recent broadcasts include: The Green Book (BBC Radio 4), “Alvin Hall Goes Back to School” (The Takeaway, PRI with WNYC). His children's book, Show Me the Money, has been published in 20 foreign-language editions. He has performed on NPR's The Moth. Hall lives in New York City where he's completing a memoir of his childhood and his first podcast series.
Guest Critic
The Death Issue
By Alvin HallDeath references were so frequent in my life that I found myself wondering: Is this simply a strange coincidental cause of my increased awareness or is it confirmation of the saying that death is always with us?