Harvard Book Store

Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
John Freeman
October 13, 2009
00:44:16
Two innovators talk about employing a variety of narrative strategies to tell a story. Tim Kring, developer and executive producer of the blockbuster NBC show Heroes, gives a visual presentation about his use of transmedia storytelling. Reif Larson, whose The Collected Works of T. S.
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
Taylor Branch
October 8, 2009
00:54:57
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch takes us inside the Clinton White House with a discussion of The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.
Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati
Rabih Alameddine
October 7, 2009
00:54:55
Novelist Rabih Alameddine reads from The Hakawati, a framed narrative in the tradition of A Thousand and One Nights and The Canterbury Tales.
Jill McCorkle: Going Away Shoes
Jill McCorkle
October 6, 2009
00:38:59
Jill McCorkle reads from her new collection of short stories, Going Away Shoes. With her trademark wit and intelligence, McCorkle's new collection provides variations on the theme of women confronting the dark and difficult sides of love.
Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Bacevich
October 5, 2009
01:21:50
Conservative historian Andrew Bacevich discusses his provocative book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Bacevich joins Charles Sennott, founder of the on-line news service GlobalPost, to discuss the challenges the Obama administration faces in Afghanistan.
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
October 2, 2009
Comparative religion scholar Karen Armstrong presents The Case for God.
Kay Redfield Jamison: Nothing Was the Same
Kay Redfield Jamison
October 1, 2009
Johns Hopkins professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. Jamison's first memoir, An Unquiet Mind, touchingly told the story of her struggle with mental illness.
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
Tad Friend
September 30, 2009
New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend as gives us a glimpse of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. Tad Friend has an illustrious family tree which also happens to include numerous alcoholics, depressives, and assorted eccentrics.