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9/20 at 2:00 PM: Plato and the Tyrant

James Romm, author of Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

in conversation with

Frederic Hof, author of Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace

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9/20 at 4:00 PM: Never Take the Rule of Law for Granted: China and the Dissident

Richard Hornik sits down with

Mark Clifford, author of The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic

in conversation with

Jerome Cohen, author of Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law

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10/3 at 4:00 PM: Sargent's Greatest Patron

Jean Strouse, author of Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

in conversation with

Susan Galassi, author of Picasso’s Variations on the Masters

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10/3 at 6:00 PM: The Brendan Gill Lecture

Brendan Gill Lecture

Betsy Lerner, author of Shred Sisters (a novel)

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10/4 at 10:30 AM: Farther Than We can See . . .

Hampton Sides, author of The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

in conversation with

Adam Higginbotham, author of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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10/4 at 1:00 PM: Worthy and Unworthy Lives

Dagmar Herzog, author of The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century

in conversation with

Sophia Rosenfeld, author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

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10/4 at 3:00 PM: American Whim

Caleb Smith, author of Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture

in conversation with

Jennifer Fleissner, author of Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem

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10/5 at 8:00 AM: A Walk in the Woods with Brian Donahue and Mike Zarfos

Registration is required: Limited to 20 people.

Location: GMF Sugar House, top of Windrow Road.

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10/5 at 11:00 AM: Building Local Building Green

Brian Donahue, author of Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests

in conversation with

Mike Zarfos Executive Director, Great Mountain Forest

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10/5 at 1:30 PM: What is a Cookbook Anyway?

Kevin West, author of The Cook’s Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting, Growing, and Savoring the Tastiest Vegetables of Each Season

in conversation with

Sara B. Franklin, author of The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

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