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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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Current Book - May 2013

  • The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
    Hosted by: Gavin Jones

    "How can a novel be both a celebration and a damnation of the American dream? How can such a short book be the great American novel? Fitzgerald condenses the myths and symbols of this nation into a gem of the Jazz Age: The Great Gatsby."

    Gavin Jones, professor and chair of English

Upcoming Books

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Past Books

  • September 2012

    Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante

    Hosted by: Alice LaPlante, lecturer in the Mastery in Communication Initiative at the Graduate School of Business

  • November 2012

    Tevye the Dairyman & Railroad Stories, by Sholem Aleichem

    Hosted by: Gabriella Safran, Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Professor and Director, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

  • January 2013

    Emma, by Jane Austen

    Hosted by: John Bender, Jean G. & Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature

  • February 2013

    Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Hosted by: Nancy Ruttenburg, Director, Center for the Study of the Novel and The William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature

  • March 2013

    Black Rain, by Masuji Ibuse

    Hosted by: Steven Carter, professor of Japanese literature

  • April 2013

    Any Human Heart, by William Boyd

    Hosted by: Helen Stacy, Director of the Program on Human Rights in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

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