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September 28, 2012
Natalie Hopkinson
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September 21, 2012
Daniel Kantstroom
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March 7, 2012
The Future of Black Politics
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October 18, 2011
Ron Suskind
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March 4, 2011
Maya Jasanoff
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February 25, 2011
Siva Vaidhyanathan
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February 24, 2011
Dani Rodrik
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February 18, 2011
Izzeldin Abuelaish
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February 17, 2011
Parag Khanna
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February 14, 2011
Dambisa Moyo
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February 10, 2011
Daniel Rasmussen
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February 4, 2011
Sherry Turkle
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January 27, 2011
Robert and Ellen Kaplan
discuss Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem -
January 24, 2011
Seth Mnookin
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January 22, 2011
Christian Lander
discusses Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews -
January 14, 2011
Richard Wolffe
discusses Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House -
December 7, 2010
Chris Kimball
The cast of America's Test Kitchen discusses their Healthy Family Cookbook -
November 3, 2010
The Best American Short Stories 2010
Series editor Heidi Pitlor joins guest editor, Richard Russo, and contributors Brendan Mathews and Steve Almond -
November 1, 2010
Gal Beckerman
Gal Beckerman discusses When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry -
October 26, 2010
The Best American Essays 2010
Series editor Robert Atwan joins contributors John Summers and Jerald Walker -
October 25, 2010
Robert Kaplan
Robert Kaplan discusses Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power -
October 15, 2010
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder discusses Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin -
September 23, 2010
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan discuss The Fall -
April 17, 2010
Mark Oppenheimer
Mark Oppenheimer discusses Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate -
March 23, 2010
Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe
Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe weigh in on The Great God Debate -
February 17, 2010
Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor
Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor discuss A Common Pornography and Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever -
February 8, 2010
John Callahan and Adam Bradley
John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting -
February 2, 2010
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Rebecca Goldstein discusses 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction -
January 8, 2010
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough discuss All Things at Once -
December 3, 2009
Harry Evans and Jason Epstein
Harry Evans and Jason Epstein discuss My Paper Chase and Eating -
October 29, 2009
Harriet Reisen
Harriet Reisen discusses Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women -
October 23, 2009
Thomas Cathcart
Thomas Cathcart discusses Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates
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Minimum Paige: A Harvard Book Store Comic Anthology
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September 16, 2011
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January 21, 2011
HBTV Presents: Jurassic Books
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January 14, 2011
HBTV Is On The Air!
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September 8, 2010
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Alex Myers
Harvard Book Store welcomes teacher, activist, and Harvard alum ALEX MYERS, the first openly transgender student at Harvard University, for a discussion of his novel Revolutionary.
In 1782, during the final clashes of the Revolutionary War, one of our young nation’s most valiant and beloved soldiers was, secretly, a woman.
When Deborah Samson disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army, she wasn’t just fighting for America’s independence—she was fighting for her own.
Revolutionary, Alex Myers’s richly imagined and meticulously researched debut novel, brings the true story of Deborah’s struggle against a rigid colonial society back to life—and with it the courage, hope, fear, and heartbreak that shaped her journey through a country’s violent birth.
After years as an indentured servant in a sleepy Massachusetts town, chafing under the oppressive norms of colonial America, Deborah can’t contain her discontent any longer. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to finally make her escape. Embracing the peril and promise of the unknown, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and, stealing clothes from a neighbor, rechristens herself Robert Shurtliff. It’s a desperate, dangerous, and complicated deception, and becomes only more so when, as Robert, she enlists in the Continental Army.
What follows is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind journey through an America torn apart by war: brutal winters and lethal battlefields, the trauma of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the joy of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. In his brilliant Revolutionary, Myers, who himself is a descendant of the historical Deborah, takes full advantage of this real-life heroine’s unique voice to celebrate the struggles for freedom, large and small, like never before.
"Alex Myers' debut novel, Revolutionary, is more than an accounting of Deborah Sampson's amazing Revolutionary war feat of enlisting and serving a three-year tour in the army disguised as a man; it is an exploration of the irony of such circumstances. In following her true nature—who she is at heart—Deborah creates for herself a duplicitous life fraught with personal risk. This beautifully written account is a reminder that gender identity and the struggle for equal rights has always been with us. Perhaps now, in our time, we can set aside our biases and not simply ask how Deborah Sampson did what she did, but understand why." —Heather Sharfeddin author of Windless Summer
Alex Myers was born and raised in western Maine. Since high school, Alex has campaigned for transgender rights. As a female-to-male transgender person, Alex began his transition at Phillips Exeter Academy (returning his senior year as a man after attending for three years as a woman) and was the first transgender student in that academy's history. Alex was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard, and worked to change the university's nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. After earning a master's in religion from Brown University, Alex began a career as a high school English teacher. Along the way, he earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He currently lives in DC with his wife and two cats.