Author to Speak on the Insanity of Modern College Admissions at Pleasanton Public Library on Wednesday, April 25

J.D. Rothman, author of The Neurotic Parent’s Guide to College Admissions, will provide a lively, laugh-filled reading and conversation about the insanity of modern college admissions at the . The event takes place on Wednesday, April 25 at 7 p.m.

The library is located at 400 Old Bernal Avenue in Pleasanton.

Rothman is a former instructor of remedial freshman composition, as well as an Emmy-winning television writer and the author of theneuroticparent.com, the favorite blog of exhausted admissions counselors and sanity-seeking parents. She is also a two-time survivor of the college admissions process.

Rothman’s hilarious topics will include frightening statistics, shocking pie charts and depressing bar graphs, what to expect when they’re rejecting, haikus for the neurotic parent, and Bed Bath & Bye-Bye.

For more information on this and other library events, please visit the library’s website at

www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/services/library, or call (925) 931-3400 ext. 8.