{"id":5049,"date":"2020-06-18T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?page_id=5049"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:20:14","slug":"past-book-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?page_id=5049","title":{"rendered":"<b>Past events<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Maxwell,\u00a0<a title=\"An encounter with William Maxwell\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=1027\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>So Long See You Tomorrow<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Janet Lewis,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=469\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Wife of Martin Guerre<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Anita Loos,\u00a0<a title=\"Anita Loos\u2019s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: \u201cYou have to be shifty in a new country.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=1049\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>J.R. Ackerley,\u00a0<a title=\"Sometimes love really is a bitch.\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=1081\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>My Father and Myself<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Philip Roth,\u00a0<a title=\"All-star panel to discuss Philip Roth\u2019s The Ghost Writer at Stanford\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=1345\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Ghost Writer<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Marguerite Duras,\u00a0<a title=\"But did it really happen?\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=1455\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Lover<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Italo Calvino,\u00a0<a title=\"Love, loss, and the first signs in space: Robert Harrison on Calvino\u2019s Cosmicomics\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=1683\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Cosmicomics<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>James Baldwin,\u00a0<a title=\"James Baldwin on writing: \u201cYou want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=2117\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Fire Next Time<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Albert Camus,\u00a0<a title=\"More honored than read? Stanford\u2019s Another Look book club reconsiders Camus\u2019 The Stranger\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=2337\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Stranger<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>J.L. Carr,\u00a0<a title=\"Stanford\u2019s Another Look book club reborn with J.L. Carr\u2019s A Month in the Country\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=2941\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A Month in the Country<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>J.A. Baker,\u00a0<a title=\"Werner Herzog Visits Another Look: The Movie!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=3591\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Peregrine<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Zora Neale Hurston&#8217;s <a title=\"An exuberant evening with Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Their Eyes Were Watching God!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4083\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Joseph Conrad, <a title=\"Galsworthy remembers Joseph Conrad: \u201cIt was the sea that gave Conrad to the English language.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=3665\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The\u00a0Shadow-Line<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Bohumil Hrabal,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Too Long a Solitude<\/em><\/span><br \/>Fyodor Dostoevsky&#8217;s <a title=\"Bright day, dark subject: Stanford discusses Dostoevsky\u2019s The Double\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4285\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Double<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>S\u00e1ndor M\u00e1rai&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"A triumph for S\u00e1ndor M\u00e1rai\u2019s little-known classic Embers\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4363\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Embers<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Frankenstein@Stanford: excellent company and an unforgettable book on a very rainy night!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4469\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Frankenstein<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Philip Larkin\u2019s <a title=\"Did the earth shake? Another Look totally rocked Philip Larkin\u2019s 1947 novel, \u201cA Girl in Winter.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4573\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A Girl in Winter<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>W.H. Hudson\u2019s <a title=\"Another Look launches its seventh season with W.H. Hudson\u2019s Green Mansions.\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4628\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Green Mansions<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Walter Tevis\u2019s <a title=\"\u201cPlaying chess with my father\u201d: Will Tevis remembers\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4688\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit <\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Madame de LaFayette\u2019s <a title=\"Do the French take their literature seriously? The furor over \u201cLa Princesse de Cl\u00e8ves\u201d!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4793\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Princesse de Cl\u00e8ves<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Alfred Hayes\u2019s <a title=\"Four panelists, a lively discussion, and a surprise guest for Hayes\u2019s \u201cMy Face for the World to See\u201d!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4868\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>My Face for the World to See<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Mary McCarthy\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a title=\"Join us for Mary McCarthy\u2019s \u201cMemories of a Catholic Girlhood\u201d on Wed., Feb. 19!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4916\">Memories of a Catholic Girlhood<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Walter Tevis, <\/span><a title=\"A lively discussion for Walter Tevis\u2019s The Queen\u2019s Gambit!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=4756\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Queen&#8217;s Gambit<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Henry James,\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Henry James\u2019s \u201cThe Aspern Papers\u201d on Zoom \u2013 a dynamic and provocative hit!\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?p=5241\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em style=\"font-weight: 300;\">The Aspern Papers<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u00a0<br \/><\/span>William Kennedy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=5347\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Billy Phelan&#8217;s Greatest Game<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>Dorothy Strachey&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=5519\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Olivia<\/span><\/a><br \/>Virginia Woolf\u2018s<a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=5741\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> A Room of One\u2019s Own<\/span><\/a><br \/><\/em>John Fante&#8217;s <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ask the Dust<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><br \/><\/em>Herman Melville&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=5860\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bartleby<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Kamel Daoud&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6011\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6011\">The Meursault Investigation<\/a><\/em><br>Dino Buzzati&#8217;s\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Dino Buzzati\u2019s\u00a01960\u00a0The Singularity.\">The Singularity<\/a><\/span><\/em><br>Y\u014dko Ogawa&#8217;s  <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6157\">The Housekeeper and the Professor<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Maxwell,\u00a0So Long See You TomorrowJanet Lewis,\u00a0The Wife of Martin GuerreAnita Loos,\u00a0Gentlemen Prefer BlondesJ.R. Ackerley,\u00a0My Father and MyselfPhilip Roth,\u00a0The Ghost WriterMarguerite Duras,\u00a0The LoverItalo Calvino,\u00a0CosmicomicsJames Baldwin,\u00a0The Fire Next TimeAlbert Camus,\u00a0The StrangerJ.L. Carr,\u00a0A Month in the CountryJ.A. Baker,\u00a0The PeregrineZora Neale Hurston&#8217;s Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?page_id=5049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5049","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}