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Program History
| 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002|
| 2000-2001 | 1999-2000 | 1998-1999 | 1997-1998 |
2006-2007
- Robert Cohen: Varieties of Romantic Experience
- Professor Charles Lynn Batten: The Historical Context of Waiting for Godot
- Opening performance of Waiting for Godot by the Gate Theatre of Dublin
- Chang-rae Lee: Aloft
- Professor Frederick Burwick: Coleridge’s Translation of Goethe’s Faust
- Deborah Eisenberg: Twilight of the Superheroes
- Peter Behrens: The Law of Dreams
- Professor H. A. Kelly: Satan: A Biography
- Dr. Rita Charon: Henry James: The Perilous Fate of the Teller, or What Bench?
What Desolation?
- Annual Dinner: Professor Robert Watson: How 17th-Century Artists Accidentally
Invented Animal Rights
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2005-2006
- Lily Tuck: The News from Paraguay
- Joan Silber: Heaven: A Ring of Stories
- Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- W. S. Merwin: Migration: New & Selected Poems
- Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking
- Allan Gurganus: White People
- Kathleen Washburn: American Modernism and the "New Indians"
- Edward P. Jones: The Known World
- Leslie S. Klinger: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
- Colm Tóibín: The Master
- Sam See: "Even Sodomy Can Be Sane and Wholesome": D. H. Lawrence and
Sexual-Poetic Purity
- Professor John Dagenais: Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Simulation
- Tab Hunter: Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
- Annual Dinner: Lawrence Grobel: The Art of the Interviewer
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2004-2005
- Diane Johnson: L'Affaire
- Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
- Agapi Stassinopoulos: Conversations with the Goddesses
- Professor N. Katherine Hayles: The Strange Worlds of David Foster Wallace
- David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Oblivion
- Emily Russell: The Extraordinary Twain: Conjoined Twins as a Challenge to
Individualism
- Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
- Merchant of Venice: A film screening and discussion with producer Barry Nevidi,
with an introduction by Stephen Dickey
- Sharon Cameron: The Sea Is the Sea: The Unpersonified Impersonal in
Melville's Billy Budd
- Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
- Bloom: A film screening and panel discussion, hosted by Professor Jack Kolb
- Annual Dinner: Ben Schwarz: Riding the Waves with The Atlantic: The Changes
Elite Magazines Face in a Post–9/11 World
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2003-2004
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
- Annette Kaufman: A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me
- Alice McDermott: Child of My Heart: A Novel
- Peter Carey: My Life as a Fake
- Wanda Coleman: Angel Baby Blues
- Jessica Pressman: Exploring Topics in Hypertext and Electronic Literature
- Tobias Wolff: Old School
- Stephen Dickey: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, with performances by Dan
Christiaens, Joe Herold, Danny Oberbeck, and Gary Bell
- Estelle Gershgoren Novak: Poets of the Non-Existent City
- Jeanne McCulloch, editor, and novelist Mona Simpson: A lecture and discussion
- Jonathan Kirsch: God Against the Gods: Sacred Texts and the War Between
Monotheism and Polytheism
- Martin Amis, joined by Christopher Hutchins: Yellow Dog
- Professor Fred Burwick: Bacchus and Romantic England: Keats, Coleridge, and
Other Imbibers
- Sean Silver: Romancing the Pineapple: Our Love Affair with Novel Fruit
- Annual Dinner: Professor Eric Jager: The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime,
Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, an illustrated lecture
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2002-2003
- Patrick Stewart with Professor A. R. Braunmuller and Dr. David S. Rodes: An
afternoon reading Shakespeare
- Mona Simpson, Dr. Carolyn See, and others: Readings from The Library of
America
- Pamela Kaufman: The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Alice Dailey: Martyrs of the Renaissance
- Peter Dennis: Bother! Selections from The Complete Works of Winnie the Pooh,
by A. A. Milne
- Strange Fruit: A film screening and discussion with writer-director Joel Katz
- Stephen Cooper: The Fiction of John Fanté
- Professors Cal Bedient, Joy Harjo, Harryette Mullen, and Stephen Yenser:
An evening of contemporary poetry
- Andrew Sargent: Interracial Buddy Pairings in Film
- Professor Fred Burwick: Death's Jest Book
- David Birney, Vincent Dowling, and others: Poetry and Literature of Ireland:
"Never Give All
the Heart…"
- Mary Robertson, curator at the Huntington Library: Gloriana! The Golden
Legend of Elizabeth I
- Stanley Wells: Shakespeare: For All Time
- Doug Dutton, Jonathan Kirsch, and Wendy Werris: Brave New World of Books
- Molly Hiro: Feeling Right? Cross-Racial Sympathy in America from Uncle Tom's
Cabin to Oprah's Book Club
- Annual Dinner: Professor Jayne Lewis: A Ghost in the Age of Reason
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2001-2002
- Al Pacino: Looking for Richard
- Professor Stephen Yenser and others: A tribute to James Merrill
- Mona Simpson: Off Keck Road
- Gina Nahai: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fiction: A Writer's Journey from the
East to the West
- Jerredith Merrin: Bat Ode
- Mark Seltzer: Serial Killers
- Eva Marie Saint and Jeff Hayden: On the Divide
- Annual Dinner: Professor Thomas Wortham Ain't It a Shame What We've Done
to Mark Twain?
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2000-2001
- Margaret Atwood: A private reception
- Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek: Yiddish on the American Scene:
A Concert of Yiddish Songs
- Professor J. D. McClatchy and friends: A Longfellow evening
- Professor Barbara Packer: White Ashes, with a performance by Mary Stark
- James Fadiman: The Other Side of Haight
- Miriam Margolyes in conversation with Professor A. R. Braunmuller:
Shakespeare on Stage
- Ron Gottesman with Professor James Goodwin: The Encyclopedia of Violence
- Seamus Heaney: A private reception
- Aimee Bender: An evening in conversation
- Annual Dinner: Dr. David S. Rodes: Shakespeare's The Tempest
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1999-2000
- Simon Winchester: On writing The Professor and the Madman
- Frank Dwyer and Mary Stark: Sarah Siddons, Actress and Woman
- Richard Reeves: The New History: The Triumph of the Visual
- Janet Hadda, Kenneth Turan, and Leonard Nimoy: Yiddish on the American
Scene
- David Wong Louie: Reading from The Barbarians Are Coming
- Paul Vangelisti: Los Angeles Writing 1932–1998
- John Rechy: The Myth of LA-LA Land
- Jascha Kessler and Julia Barrett: On writing
- Frank McCourt: Father's Day Reflections
- Annual Dinner: Professor V. A. Kolve: A Special Kind of Folly: The Middle
Ages Imagines Us
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1998-1999
- Andrea Barrett: Art as Exploration and Discovery
- Eric Foner: The Story of American Freedom
- Professor Greg Sarris: Writing, Teaching, and Fiction
- Professor N. Katherine Hayles: Monstrous Bodies and Literary Forms:
Experimental Electronic Fiction
- David Ferry: Gilgamesh, Horace, Virgil, and Others
- James Ellroy: Off the Record, On the QT, and Very Hush Hush
- Professor Rafael Perez-Torres: Movements, Music, and Magic in Contemporary
Poetry
- John, Sean, and MacKenzie Astin and Paul Day Clemens in John Bricuth's
Just Let Me Say This About That
- Alix Kates Schulman: On autobiography
- Benita Eisler: Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
- Joanna Trollope: Reading from Other People's Children
- Annual Dinner: Professor Michael J. B. Allen: Shakespeare in Love with
Cleopatra
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1997-1998
- Steve Wasserman interviewed by Warren Olney: Can Literature Survive in
Mass Culture?
- Kevin Starr: The Historical Novel in America: Settings and Uses
- Garrison Keillor: Wobegon Boy
- Frank McCourt: Reflections on Angela's Ashes
- Professor Lynn Batten: Things Fall Apart: 20th-Century Art and Literature
- Professor Martha Banta: Mamie, Alice, Undine, and Gitl: American Women
Breaking Loose, circa 1900
- T. Coraghessan Boyle: Reading from Riven Rock
- Professor Eric Jager: The Book of the Heart
- Joseph Heller: Autobiographical remembrances in Now and Then
- Joy Harjo: Visiting professor of poetry performing with Poetic Justice
- Studs Terkel interviewed by Digby Diehl: My American Century
- Mary Gordon: Discussing her new novel Spending
- John Lithgow and others: A celebration of Lyrical Ballads at the Huntington
Library
- Ian Frost: Byron in Hell: His Life and Love
- Merlin Holland: Oscar Wilde's grandson discusses Wilde's life and work
- Lisa and Dr. Carolyn See: Afternoon salon with prominent Los Angeles authors
(mother and daughter) discussing their work
- Roy Blount, Jr.: On humor
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