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Past Book Talk Events

March 11, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 300 Wallace Hall

CANCELED: Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Journalism School; Paul Frymer, Politics; Sean Wilentz, History


December 10, 2019 · 6:00 pm · Labyrinth Books

Book Talk: The Seine: The River That Made Paris

Elaine Sciolino, author and journalist; David A. Bell, History


October 22, 2019 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Mary Norris, The New Yorker


October 17, 2019 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm · Princeton Public Library

The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas and the Cost of America’s Coasts

Gilbert Gaul, journalist and author


April 10, 2019 · 12:00 pm1:00 pm · Betts Auditorium

Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

Julia Guarneri, University of Cambridge; Nick Chiles, Journalism


December 11, 2018 · 5:30 pm7:30 pm · Betts Auditorium

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson, Author and Journalist


December 11, 2018 · 5:00 pm6:00 pm · 50 McCosh

A Conversation with Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein, Journalist and Author


November 20, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · A71 Simpson

Leta Hong Fincher Lecture and Book Sale/Signing

Leta Hong Fincher, Author and Journalist


October 24, 2018 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books Princeton

Readings and Conversation with John McPhee, Kushanava Choudhury, and Elisabeth Cohen

John McPhee, Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence; Kushanava Choudhury, journalist and author; Elisabeth Cohen, author


October 24, 2017 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books

A Conversation with John McPhee: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

John McPhee in conversation with Joel Achenbach & Robert Wright


May 16, 2017 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books Princeton

The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs

Elaine Sciolino, Contributing Writer at The New York Times and Ferris Professor of Journalism


April 23, 2017 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Labyrinth Books Princeton

Democracy Now! Covering the Movements Changing America

Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!


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