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2008-2009 Season Archive

  • September 2008

    The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged, edited by Edward Connery Latham

    Hosted by: Dana Gioia, '73, MBA '77, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and award-winning poet

  • November 2008

    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Barack Obama

    Hosted by: Richard Banks, '87, MA '87, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law

  • January 2009

    The Quiet American, Graham Greene

    Hosted by: Martin Evans, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English

  • February 2009

    Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital

    Hosted by: Valerie Miner, rtist-in-residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and consulting professor in English

  • March 2009

    The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter, '76

    Hosted by: Denise Johnson, associate professor of surgery

  • April 2009

    Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro

    Hosted by: Elizabeth Tallent, professor of English

  • May 2009

    Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel

    Hosted by: Charlie Junkerman, dean and associate provost of Stanford Continuing Studies

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