Lectures tagged "Men's Issues"


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Lauren Grodstein: Friend of the Family
Lauren Grodstein
December 8, 2009
00:32:47
Lauren Grodstein reads from her new novel, A Friend of the Family, which tackles the precarious balance of family expectations and the widely-felt consequences that can result when those expectations are interrupted.
Robot-Assisted Surgery
Bert Chen
December 2, 2009
00:39:04
Bert Chen, a Dekalb Medical urologist, talks about prostate cancer and the advances being made in the treatment of this dissease using the da Vinci robot surgical system. He also demonstrates the robotic surgical system.
Pornografia
Danuta Borchardt
November 2, 2009
00:47:12
Translator Danuta Borchardt discusses her translation of Witold Gombrowicz's novel Pornografia. Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina in 1939 and then watching from afar as the German invasion destroyed his country.
Beyond the Margins and Between the Lines
Scott Kirsner
October 24, 2009
00:57:08
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.
Ties That Bind: Family in Fiction
Michael Thomas
October 24, 2009
00:51:08
Bret Anthony Johnston, director of creative writing at Harvard and author of Corpus Christi: Stories, hosts a novelist panel on the family in fiction.
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.
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
Sean Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
Sean Hemingway
September 20, 2009
01:26:34
Sean Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's grandson; Adam Gopnik, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon; and, Diane Johnson, author of Le Mariage and Le Divorce, discussed the restored edition of Hemingway's Parisian classic, A Moveable Feast, with Sc