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An Evening of Images & Conversation
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& Laughing Without an Accent
Anne Fadiman
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Robert Hass
United States Poet Laureate (1995-1997)National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Environmentalist and Teacher
David Henry Hwang
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Journalist and Author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe:Man, Nature and Climate Change
Tony Kushner
Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright,Author of Angels in America and Caroline, or Change
Anne Lamott
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Armistead Maupin
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Alexander McCall Smith
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44 Scotland Street & The Sunday Philosophy Club Series
W.S. Merwin
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Anchee Min
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Marion Nestle
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Kathleen Norris
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Award-winning Palestinian-American Poet,Writer, Anthologist, and Educator
Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning & National Book Award-winning Poet, Essayist and Chronicler of the Natural World
Michael Ondaatje
Bestselling & Award-winning Author of The English Patient,Divisadero & Running in the Family
Robert Pinsky
United States Poet Laureate (1997–2000)Translator, Essayist, and Teacher
Michael Pollan
Bestselling Author & JournalistIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
& The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
David Rakoff
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Luis J. Rodriguez
Award-winning Poet, Activist, and Bestselling AuthorAlways Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Science and Nature Writer, Biologist and Neuroscientist, and Stress Expert
Marjane Satrapi
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Alice Sebold
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David Sedaris
NPR Humorist and Bestselling Author of Naked,Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Scott Simon
Host, Weekend Edition Saturday on NPRand Need to Know on PBS, Writer & Novelist
Art Spiegelman
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Chris Ware
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and Finding Beauty in a Broken World
