Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / History and Philosophy / FASCINATING NONFICTION
Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein, Bob Reiss, Ruth Ward
At each session the presenter will tell you about a book you always wanted to read or about a book you never heard of but will be glad that you now have.
Selections range from transit maps to Mt. Everest expeditions, American politics, Western women’s diaries, young Ernest Hemingway, black migration, the sinking of the Lusitania, Frank Sinatra, American restaurants, the evolution of mankind. Every semester an eclectic array of fascinating non-fiction awaits its audience.
B WEEK / WEDNESDAY / 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
| FASCINATING NONFICTION | ||
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| Feb 14 | Bob Reiss | The Hank Show by McKenzie Frank |
| Feb 28 | Paul Adler | How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan |
| Mar 13 | Larry Shapiro | Lab Girl by Hope Jahren |
| Mar 27 | Paul Golomb | It’s Not TV by Felix Gillette and John Koblin |
| Apr 10 | Harriet Finkelstein | Mapping the Darkness by Kenneth Miller |
| May 01 | Wayne Cotter | The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann |
| May 15 | Ruth Ward | The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher |
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