Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
The Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series presents Strange Science: A talk by Marc Abrahams, author of This is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors, and More WTF Research.
Tuesday, October 28 @ 7:30 pm Thompson Room, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Harvard University...
After a 25-year friendship that began in Harvard Yard, Scott Stossel and Ben Mezrich have something new in common. They have both written bestselling books. Please join us for a conversation with Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic and the author of My Age of Anxiety, and Mezrich, author of twelve books including The Accidental Billionaires (which was the basis for the film The Social Network) and the forthcoming Seven Wonders. They will discuss the choices they have made as writers and their very different paths to success.
In the 1970s, needing money for graduate school, Merry “Corky” White took a catering job at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. The gig led to a lifelong friendship with then-neighbor Julia Child, hours of culinary research in the basement of Widener Library, and a meeting that led to the book Cooking for Crowds, which was recently re-released for its 40th anniversary. Now Boston’s preeminent food anthropologist, White will be discussing the dietary history of Roman orgies, her own...
Please join us for a discussion with Joshua Greene, author of Moral Tribes, about how our brains turn Me into Us, but turn Us against Them, and what we can do about it.
Please join us in a conversation with 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winner (and former Harvard College Writing Program preceptor) Paul Harding, as he talks about his new novel, Enon, and the craft of writing.