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Yale Library Book Talk series presents its 2024–25 lineup of new author events

August 26, 2024
This fall’s Book Talk series features 5 nonfiction authors on topics ranging from librarian spies to Yale’s bulldog mascot Handsome Dan.
Three book covers: Fancy Bear is read on top and shows painting of blue bear in suit at bottom; American Anarchy shows white banner held by protesters; This Exquisite Loneliness is white cover with a small tangerine at lower left corner

Yale Library Book Talk series announces lineup for spring 2024

January 8, 2024
This spring, Yale Book Talk authors discuss hacking in the digital age, anarchy in America, and the creative uses of loneliness.
Four book covers: "G-Man, J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century" by Beverly Gage with half photo of Hoover's face; Without Concealment, Without Compromise, with four old photos of black Civil War surgeons at bottom half; Thoreau's Axe, with a black snake on a grey background and white lettering; My Egypt Archive with nine piles of books in watercolor in a grid on yellow ground

Yale Library Book Talk series presents fall 2023 lineup of new nonfiction

September 6, 2023
A new season of Yale Library Book Talks presents authors discussing books about politics, history, cultural history, and biography.
Man with white hair and wire-rim glasses, in black tuxedo with white shirt and cravatte, holds conductor's baton, leaning back with eyes closed and mouth open as if singing

World-renowned conductor, alumnus John Mauceri, visits Yale Library for Book Talk

February 4, 2023
John Mauceri ’67, former professor and director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, returns to campus March 8 for a Yale Library Book Talk to discuss The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.
Four book covers: from left to right, a white cover with black type reading The Other Side of Prospect; a beige cover with red type reading The War on Music; a grey cover with white type reading Hell Bent; a black cover with yellow type reading The Madman in the White House with a silhouetted photo of Woodrow Wilson's face and black hat

Join the conversation! Yale Library launches the spring 2023 Book Talks

January 19, 2023
A new season of Yale Library Book Talks presents the latest fiction and nonfiction by four acclaimed authors: Leigh Bardugo, Nicholas Dawidoff, John Mauceri, and Patrick Weil.
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Fall 2022 events in library's Book Talk series

October 17, 2022
Meghan O’Rourke and R. F. Kuang present their new books in the next two sessions of the library’s Book Talk series