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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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.""

Greg Wrenn, Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program

January 2016

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Hosted by: Paula Moya, professor of English and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Culture
March 2016

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Hosted by: Judy Richardson, senior lecturer in English and program coordinator for American Studies
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
May 2016

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Hosted by: Blair Hoxby, associate professor of English

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