Yale Library Book Talks launches 2025-26 season
On Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m., the Yale Library Book Talks series opens its new season with award-wining cartoonist and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel. Bechdel will present her new comic novel, “Spent,” which features a cartoonist who runs a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont and is intent on saving humanity. Bechdel is professor in the Practice, English and Film and Media Studies at Yale. Join the conversation in the lecture hall of Sterling Library.
The season‘s lineup also features two works of nonfiction:
- John Fabian Witt, professor of Law at Yale Law School and professor of History, will present his new book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America” on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m.
- Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, will discuss his new book “Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson”—the famed author of “Treasure Island,” “Kidnapped,” and “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”—on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public and take place in the lecture hall of Sterling Library.
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