the washington post
wednesday, august
28
,
2019
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HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, SAN MARINO, CALIFORNIA10-10:45: David Epstein is the
author of the best-selling “The
Sports Gene: Inside the Science of
Extraordinary Athletic
Performance.” He has worked as
an investigative reporter for
ProPublica and a senior writer for
Sports Illustrated. His new book is
“Range: Why Generalists Triumph
in a Specialized World”
(Riverhead). Signing 11:30-12:30.
12:30-1:15: Conversation: The
Future of Western Capitalism and
the Rise of Asia. Parag Khanna is
a specialist in international
relations and a managing partner
of FutureMap, a scenario-planning
and strategic advisory firm. He is
the author of six books including
“The Second World: Empires and
Influence in the New Global Order”
and “Connectography: Mapping
the Future of Global Civilization.”
He has been a fellow at the
Brookings Institution and the New
America Foundation, as well as an
adviser to the U.S. National
Intelligence Council and U.S.
Special Operations Forces. His new
book is “The Future Is Asian”
(Simon & Schuster). Steven
Pearlstein is a Pulitzer Prize-
winning business and economics
columnist for The Washington Post
and is on the faculty of George
Mason University. Pearlstein was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
commentary in 2008. His new
book is “Can American Capitalism
Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good,
Opportunity Is Not Equal, and
Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor” (St.
Martin’s). Signing 2:30-3:30.
1:30-2:20: Amy Gutmann is
president of the University of
Pennsylvania and the Christopher
H. Browne Distinguished Professor
of Political Science in Penn’s
School of Arts and Sciences and a
professor of communication in the
Annenberg School for
Communication at Penn. Her new
book (with Jonathan D. Moreno) is
“Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics
and the Transformation of Health
Care in America” (Liveright).
Jonathan D. Moreno is the David
and Lyn Silfen University Professor
at the University of Pennsylvania
where he is a Penn Integrates
Knowledge professor. He is also
professor of Medical Ethics and
Health Policy, of History and
Sociology of Science, and of
Philosophy. Signing 3:30-4:30.
2:30-3:15: David Grann is a staff
writer at the New Yorker and the
best-selling author of “The Devil
and Sherlock Holmes” and “The
Lost City of Z.” His story “The Old
Man and the Gun,” was a 2018
movie starring Robert Redford,
Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek and
Danny Glover. His most recent
book is “The White Darkness”
(Doubleday). Signing 4:30-5:30.
3:30-4:30: Panel: From the Many,
One — Immigration Memoirs.
Reyna Grande, a Mexican novelist
and memoirist living in the United
States, was the 2015 recipient of
the Luis Leal Award for Distinction
in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her
first novel, “Across a Hundred
Mountains,” received the 2006
Premio Aztlán Literary Prize and a
2007 American Book Award. Her
second novel, “Dancing with
Butterflies”was the recipient of a
2010 International Book Award in
the prize program’s Best Women’s
Issues category. She was also a
2003 PEN Center USA Emerging
Voices Fellow. “The Distance
Between Us” was a 2012 National
Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Her most recent book is a memoir,
“A Dream Called Home” (Atria).
Aleksandar Hemon, a Bosnian
American fiction writer, essayist
and critic, is the author of the novel
“The Making of Zombie Wars” and
the autobiography “The Book of My
Lives,” which was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award.
He also wrote “The Lazarus
Project,” which was a finalist for the
National Book Award and was
shortlisted for the National Book
Critics Circle Award. His novel
“Nowhere Man” was also a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle
Award. He was a recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship and a
fellowship from the MacArthur
Foundation. He has recently
published “My Parents: An
Introduction/This Does Not Belong
to You” (MCD/Farrar Straus
Giroux). Suketu Mehta is the
author of “Maximum City: Bombay
Lost and Found,” a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
He is an associate professor of
journalism at New York University.
His new memoir is “This Land Is
Our Land: An Immigrant’s
Manifesto” (Farrar Straus Giroux).
Signing 5:30-6:30.
4:45-5:30: Conversation: Essential
Libraries. Joshua Hammer is the
author of four nonfiction books,
including the bestseller “The Bad-
Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And
Their Race to Save the World’s
Most Precious Manuscripts”
(Simon & Schuster). He has won
numerous journalism awards and
since 2007 has been based in
Berlin. His new book, “The Falcon
Thief: A True Tale of Adventure,
Treachery, and the Hunt for the
Perfect Bird,” is forthcoming in
early 2020. Alberto Manguel is a
writer, translator, editor,
anthologist and critic, but he
prefers to define himself as a
reader. He was born in Buenos
Aires and grew up in Israel and
Argentina. His lengthy list of books
includes “The Library at Night,” “A
Reader on Reading,” “Curiosity”
and “Packing My Library: An Elegy
and Ten Digressions.” He is also
the author of “Homer’s The Iliad
and The Odyssey: A Biography”
(Grove). Signing 2:30-3:30.
5:45-6:30: Elaine Pagels,
historian of religion, joined the
Princeton University faculty in
1982, soon after receiving several
major fellowships, including a
MacArthur. She is the author of
“The Gnostic Gospels,” “The Origin
of Satan: How Christians
demonized Jews, Pagans, and
Heretics” and “Adam, Eve and the
Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early
Christianity.” Her most recent
book, a memoir, is “Why Religion?:
A Personal Story” (Ecco). Signing
3:30-4:30.
6:45-7:45: Panel: Race in America.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the
Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor and director of the
Hutchins Center for African and
African American Research at
Harvard University. Gates has
written or co-written 22 books and
created 18 documentary films,
including “Finding Your Roots.”
Gates’s new book for young people
(with Tonya Bolden) is “Dark Sky
Rising: Reconstruction and the
Dawn of Jim Crow” (Scholastic). His
new book for adults is “Stony the
Road: Reconstruction, White
Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim
Crow” (Penguin). U.S. District Judge
Richard Gergel presides in the
same courthouse in Charleston,
S.C., where Judge Waties Waring
once served. Waring is one of the
central figures of Gergel’s new
book, “Unexampled Courage: The
Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and
the Awakening of President Harry
S. Truman and Judge J. Waties
Waring” (Sarah Crichton). Gergel
was born in Columbia, S.C., and
earned undergraduate and law
degrees from Duke University. With
his wife, Belinda Gergel, he is the
author of “In Pursuit of the Tree of
Life: A History of the Early Jews of
Columbia, South Carolina.” Richard
Gergel was the judge in the federal
trial of Dylann Roof, who was
convicted on 33 charges relating to
the 2015 church shooting in
Charleston, S.C. Steve Luxenberg
is an associate editor at The
Washington Post and award-
winning author. During his 40 years
as an editor and reporter, he has
overseen reporting that has earned
many national honors, including
two Pulitzer Prizes. His new
nonfiction book is “Separate: The
Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and
America’s Journey from Slavery to
Segregation” (Norton). His first
book was the critically-acclaimed
“Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a
Family Secret,” about his mother’s
decision to hide the existence of a
sister with physical and mental
disabilities. He lives in Baltimore.
Signing 4:30-5:30.
11-12:15: Panel: Changemakers. Andrea Barnet is the
author of “Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs,
Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World” (Ecco), a
finalist for the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for
Biography, and “All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian
Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930,” which was a
nonfiction finalist for the 2004 Lambda Literary Awards.
David W. Blight (above) is the Class of 1954 professor of
American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center
for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale
University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books
including “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights
Era” and “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American
Memory” as well as annotated editions of Frederick
Douglass’s first two autobiographies. Blight has received
honors including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln
Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. His new book,
“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon &
Schuster), won the Pulitzer Prize for history this year. The
British historian and journalist Andrew Roberts is the best-
selling author of “The Storm of War: A New History of the
Second World War,” “Masters and Commanders: How Four
Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945,” and “Napoleon: A
Life,” for which he received the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize for biography. Roberts is the Roger and Martha Mertz
Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
University. His new book is “Churchill: Walking with Destiny”
(Viking). Signing 1:30-2:30.