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    Fallout

    Investigative journalist Lesley Blume recounted the efforts by New Yorker writer John Hershey to report on the fatal impact, both short-term and long-term, of the American bombing of Hiroshi…

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    A Thousand Small Sanities

    New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik talked about his book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, in which he shared his thoughts on liberalism and how it has been def…

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    At the Strangers' Gate

    Adam Gopnik talked about his book, At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York.

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    A Moveable Feast

    Sean Hemingway talked about the book he edited, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Scribner; July 14, 2009). Sean Hemingway’s grandfather, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest…

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    Angels and Ages

    Adam Gopnik talked about Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (Knopf; January 27, 2009). The book is an examination of the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charle…

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    PEN Reading Speech by Umberto Eco

    Umberto Eco delivered remarks at the Third Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture in the Great Hall of Cooper Union. Topics included how fiction and “untruth” inform our reality, indi…

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