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Ted Conover talked about his Harper’s cover story, “The Way of All Flesh: Undercover in an Industrial Slaughterhouse,” on the meat industry in the United States, and he responded to telephon…

Piper Kerman, a Boston-bred, Smith graduate, details her experience within the legal system after being convicted on money-laundering and drug-trafficking charges in 1998. She later served o…

Journalists talked about their stories in the book being released that day, Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine (New Press; September 17, 2008…

Mr. Conover talked about his book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, published by Random House. In order to do research, the author took a job as a prison guard. The book relates the author’s expe…

Mr. Boynton talked about his book The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft, published by Vintage. He and several contributors talked about…

Winners for the publishing year 2000, announced during this program, were: Ted Conover, author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, for General Nonfiction; Cynthia Ozick, author of Quarrel and Qu…

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Book Awards for books published in 2000 read from their works.