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2015–2016 NONFICTION DIALOGUES Distinguished authors in conversation with Professor Lis Harris ALL EVENTS AT 7PM IN DODGE 501 Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February of 2016. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a NEA fellowship in prose, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Tin House, Guernica and Slate, among others. He has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University and Princeton University. NOVEMBER 19 Alexander Chee SEPTEMBER 24 Luc Sante JANUARY 27 Mary Roach Jane Mayer has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1995. She covers politics, culture, and national security for the magazine. Previously, she worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the Persian Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1984, she became the paper’s first female White House correspondent. She is the author of the 2008 Times bestseller The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which is based on her New Yorker articles and was named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade by NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. APRIL 20 Jane Mayer Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal; Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Packing for Mars is a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a One City, One Book selection for San Francisco, and Stiff has been translated into 23 languages. Luc Sante’s books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography and The Other Paris (to be published in October). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. Photos: Luc Sante(Laura Levine); Alexander Chee (M. Sharkey); Mary Roach (David Paul Morris); Jane Mayer (The New Yorker)

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2015–2016 NONFICTION DIALOGUES

Distinguished authors in conversation with Professor Lis Harris

ALL EVENTS AT 7PM IN DODGE 501

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February of 2016. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a NEA fellowship in prose, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Tin House, Guernica and Slate, among others. He has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University and Princeton University.

NOVEMBER 19Alexander Chee

SEPTEMBER 24Luc Sante

JANUARY 27Mary Roach

Jane Mayer has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1995. She covers politics, culture, and national security for the magazine. Previously, she worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the Persian Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1984, she became the paper’s first female White House correspondent. She is the author of the 2008 Times bestseller The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which is based on her New Yorker articles and was named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade by NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

APRIL 20Jane Mayer

Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal; Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Packing for Mars is a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a One City, One Book selection for San Francisco, and Stiff has been translated into 23 languages.

Luc Sante’s books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography and The Other Paris (to be published in October). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

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