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Malcolm Gladwell talked about his book Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Company; November 18, 2008). In the book Mr. Gladwell examines the underpinnings of success and argue…

Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson recounted the meeting between Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and author and activist James Baldwin on May 24, 1963, held in the hopes o…

Anita Hill, a social policy, law, and women studies professor at Brandeis University, examined housing issues in the United States. In her book, which was partially a memoir, Ms. Hill profil…

Fred Pearce talked about Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff (Beacon Press, October 1, 2008). To research the book he traveled to over twenty countries around…

Senator McCain talked about his book, Character is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember, published by Random House. The book is a collect…

Walter Benn Michaels talked about his book, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, published by Metropolitan Books. He said that America’s love of…

Wole Soyinka talked about his book You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir, published by Random House. Mr. Soyinka, a poet and playwright, was the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for L…

Saul Bellow read from his new novel Ravelstein, published by Viking Press. Narrated by an elderly writer named Chick, the book tells the story of his friendship with the title character, a …

The Harvard Book Store and the Progressive Book Club co-sponsored a panel discussion with the First Parish Church in Cambridge. Panelists discussed the influence of books on politics and cul…