Nor does the 92nd Street Y, which will host him on Friday, in conversation with Adam Gopnik — whom a cultural officer from the French Consulate once referred to as the most Parisian New Yorker — as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.
He wants to stop people regarding him as a talk-show host, greeting him with his catch phrase "Hello, good evening, and welcome", and is keen to dispel the prospect of his epitaph being Kitty Muggeridge's cutting remark that "he rose without trace".
Once, he recalled, Mr. Fitzgerald wrote up a fake appellate ruling and presented it to a fellow prosecutor hosting him for dinner, with condolences that they had lost their appeal.
If nothing else, he said, the event's hosts provided him with a small contribution to sustain him for the ride home, "great cupcakes".
When, during previous Administrations, Cui had visited the White House, his hosts received him with a retinue of China specialists and note-takers.
Last December, "Homeland" star Mandy Patinkin stopped by "LIVE With Kelly And Michael" where the hosts greeted him with a surprising email: A woman named Sandy had written in to say that Patinkin was her first kiss.
And yet Day maintained her friendship with Berrigan, corresponding with him, hosting him at the Catholic Worker movement's houses on the Lower East Side, and agreeing wholeheartedly with his wider stance against the Vietnam War.
Mr. Obama refused to make joint statements with Mr. Hun Sen, as he normally does with leaders hosting him, on the assumption that any criticism of the government would be censored, but the pictures of the two leaders side by side would be used to validate the Cambodian leader.
The program's host, Terry Gross, peppered him with questions about his family history.
I did not vilify the host but characterized him with amused detachment.
