Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 7:30 pm: Erik Larson with David Kipen

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Erik Larson's books, which include Devil In The White City, and In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, take a moment in...

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Thursday, May 17, 2012, 7:30 pm: Dan Rather in conversation with Marty Kaplan

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Dan Rather, one of the titans of broadcast journalism, is one of the most distinguished news journalists in American media history.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 7:30 pm: Buddy Elias, Anne Frank’s first cousin, with Jonathan Kirsch on new Frank family documents

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The Diary of Anne Frank has given insight to three generations around the world, to tens of millions of readers, about what people in hiding go through, the fear...

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May 30, 2012, 7:30 pm: In Association with RAND Corporation, Seth Jones and NPR’s Mike Shuster on The Pursuit of Al Qa’ida Since 9/11

 May 30, 2012, 7:30 pm: In Association with RAND Corporation, Seth Jones and NPR’s Mike Shuster on The Pursuit of Al Qa’ida Since 9/11

The difference between fictional thrillers and Seth Jones’ new book, Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa’ida Since 9/11, is that Seth Jones’ thriller is nonfiction.  For...

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 7:30 pm: Man Up, Joel Stein and Rob Huebel: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity

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Time Magazine isn’t supposed to be funny. Nor is it supposed to be provocative and politically incorrect.  But thanks to Joel Stein, it is all that. Joel’s Time pieces...

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Friday, June 29, 2012, 7:30 pm: The Daily Show’s Kevin Bleyer with Lawrence O’Donnell

 Friday, June 29, 2012, 7:30 pm: The Daily Show’s Kevin Bleyer with Lawrence O’Donnell

We hold some truths to be self-evident, and the most obvious is that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is really funny. Kevin Bleyer is one of the writers...

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Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:30 pm: Jeffrey Lewis on Berlin, Reclamation and Identity

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Berlin, perhaps more than any other city in our collective imagination, has lived through so many identities, and has morphed from one version of itself into another, several times,...

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Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7:30 pm: Arab Israeli author Sayed Kashua with Arieh Saposnik

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Writers Bloc co-sponsors this program with thanks to the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA and UCLA's Department of Comparative Literature. We invite you to participate in a...

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