A Company of Authors
- Code:
- EVT 637
- Day:
- Saturday
- Date(s):
- Apr 18
- Time:
- 1:00—5:35 pm (PT)
- Location:
- Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center or Zoom
- Cost:
- FREE
- Additional Info:
- The sessions will be recorded and video links will be shared following the event.
Closed
For the 23rd consecutive year, a distinguished group of Stanford writers will make a brief presentation about their recently published books. The program will be presented in a hybrid format.
The authors and editors who are scheduled to present include: Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs (90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey); Laura Goode (Pitch Craft: The Writer’s Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid); Steven J. Zipperstein (Philip Roth: Stung by Life); Keith Michael Baker (Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror); Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Jim: The Lives and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade); Charles G. Palm (Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives); Rowan Dorin (No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe); Didi Kuo (The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don’t); John G. Brock Utne (Memories from the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45); Nancy S. Kollmann (Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe); Gordon H. Chang (War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories); Dan Edelstein (The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin); David A. Sklansky (Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy); Alison Dahl Crossley (Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction); Alan O. Sykes (The Law and Economics of International Trade Agreements); Keith Ekiss (Burial Fragments: Poems); Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein (We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care); Adam Johnson (The Wayfinder: A Novel); William B. Gould IV (Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden: Memoir of a Labor Lawyer); Shane Denson (Bride of Frankenstein); Thomas Ehrlich (Murder at Seascape).
Please note: The schedule and authors are subject to change.
This program is hosted by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford.
Drop in, or even better, indulge yourself by spending the entire afternoon in the company of these bright, entertaining, and stimulating writers.
For questions, contact continuingstudies@stanford.edu.
This program is co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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