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<p class=MsoNormal>Where: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
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When: Friday, November 5, 4-6 pm<br>
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Free and open to the public; first come, first seated<br>
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Sponsored by the Yale Environmental Studies Program<br>
<br>
<b><u>The authors:<br>
</u></b> <br>
<b>Richard Conniff:</b> <i>The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, And The Mad
Pursuit Of Life On Earth</i>. Conniff writes about wildlife, human nature, and
other subjects for magazines including<i> Time, Smithsonian, </i>and<i>
National Geographic</i>. His previous books include <i>Spineless Wonders </i>and<i>
The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide</i>. He has won a National
Magazine Award and his work has been included in three editions of <i>The Best
American Science and Nature Writing.<br>
</i><br>
<b>Jennifer Ouellette:</b> <i>The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose
Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse.</i> Ouellette is the
author of <i>The Physics of the Buffyverse and Black Bodies </i>and<i> Quantum
Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics</i>. She is the author of the popular
"Cocktail Party Physics" blog and has served as the director of
Science & Entertainment Exchange, an initiative from the National Academics
of Sciences aimed at fostering collaboration between scientists and the entertainment
industry.<br>
<br>
<b>Annie Murphy Paul</b>: <i>Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape
the Rest of Our Lives.</i> Paul is the author of The Cult of Personality: How
Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our
Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves. She is a former senior editor at
Psychology Today and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Time, O: The
Oprah Magazine and Slate.<br>
<br>
<b>Jonathan Weiner:</b> <i>Long for This World: The Strange Science of
Immortality. </i>Weiner is the author of five books, including <i>The Beak of
the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time</i>, for which he won the Pulitzer
Prize. He is the Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific
Journalism at Columbia University.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The
Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements
about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be
posted. <br>
<br>
For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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