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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
In 1983, Madeline L'Engle, famed author of A Wrinkle in Time, gave a lecture at the Library of Congress about children's publishing.
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Monday, June 30, 2014
This week, critically-acclaimed author Tom Barbash will be speaking to students at the Stanford campus.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Award-winning food and travel writer Lavinia Spalding will be coming to Stanford this summer to speak to campers about travel writing, inspiration, and the importance of keeping a journal to connect with the physical world in an increasing technological age.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
This summer, Nell will be coming to Stanford to speak to campers about her storied career as a television and magazine writer.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
On Sunday, the Stanford campus of Great Books opens for the summer. One of our amazing guest speakers at Stanford this summer is Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
This summer, Lee Woodruff, New York Times bestselling writer and contributing reporter for "CBS This Morning," will be speaking at the Amherst College campus.
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Monday, August 12, 2013
There are few literary agents that are as iconic as Sterling Lord.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Laura Zigman is a Renaissance woman--a novelist, radio show host, journalist, Xtranormal filmmaker, and now she's helping to launch a new social media site, Happier.com.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
According to Wikipedia, writer James Blaylock "is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction." Blaylock will be coming to Stanford this fall and we wanted to delve a little deeper into how he started steampunk, his relationship with famed sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, and why James always complains about technology (or is that just the steampunk talking?).
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This summer, Andre Dubus III, the award-winning and bestselling author of such books as the novel The House of Sand and Fog and his memoir Townie , will be coming to Amherst to discuss his forthcoming book, Dirty Love, his literary success, and from where he draws his inspiration.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Jane will be coming to Stanford this summer to speak, but we were able to sit down with her and ask a few questions about how she came to be a writer.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
In 2011, World Book Night was launched to help spread the love of reading to adults around the UK and Ireland. Selecting a few books that would appeal to a wide audience, volunteers took to the streets to distribute these books to people in their community.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Both Jodi and daughter Samantha will be coming to Amherst this summer to talk about Jodi's career and how they wrote together.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Great Books sat down with award-winning film and theater producer J. Todd Harris who will be speaking at the Stanford campus this summer to ask him about what lead him to his successful career.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Last Monday morning, campers settled into their seats in Amherst College's "Red Room" to enjoy pearls of wisdom from the scintillating author, Da Chen.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Jan Constantine, General Counsel of the Authors Guild, will be speaking about the DOJ ruling and what this decision means for authors and publishing on the Amherst campus tonight.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Earlier this year, Suzzy published her first novel WAYWARD SAINTS about family, fame, and, of course, music. We sat down with her to find out a little more about what inspires her to write and what she loves to read.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Next week, teacher and author Torrey Maldonado will be speaking on the Amherst campus. Born and raised in the Red Hook projects section of Brooklyn, Torrey used literature to help him overcome his neighborhood's poverty and violence.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
This week, the first session at Amherst College began and our first guest speaker was Sharon Robinson, educator, The Vice Chairman of the Jackie Robinson Foundation and author of many works of fiction and nonfiction.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Continuing the conversations with our visiting authors and filmmakers, The Great Books Summer Program sat down with Nathan Bransford about his reading and writing life.
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