Stanford Book Salon
Bookworms unite! Each month, this seriously unstuffy community of Stanford alumni, family and friends gathers online to read and discuss a different book handpicked by one of our renowned faculty hosts.
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Current Book - November 2015
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A Woman Without A Country
by Eavan Boland.
Hosted by: Greg Wrenn"A Woman Without A Country is another astonishing examination by Eavan Boland of womanhood and Irish history, with notes of resilience and loss sounded at every turn: "a bony line forever severing / Her body from its native air until / She is ready for the page.""
Upcoming Books
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January 2016
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Hosted by: Paula Moya, professor of English and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Culture
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March 2016
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Hosted by: Judy Richardson, senior lecturer in English and program coordinator for American Studies
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April 2016
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Hosted by: Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English, Emerita, and former director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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May 2016
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Hosted by: Blair Hoxby, associate professor of English
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