Professor Eavan Boland introduces the book "Testament of Youth" to members of Stanford Book Salon community. (November 1, 2011)

Professor Abraham Verghese introduces his novel "Cutting for Stone" to members of Stanford Book Salon community. (September 22, 2011)

Harry Elam hosts the September 2010 Book Salon discussion on Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. He brings up many of the books themes, most prominently its commentary on race and how it applies in modern times. (September 2010)

Stanford Professor of Writing and Rhetoric discusses Marjane Satrapi's political graphic novel Persepolis. (October 25, 2009)

Charlie Junkerman, Stanford Associate Provost and Dean of Continuing Studies, discusses Brian Friel's play, Dancing at Lughnasa, in context of cultural, community, political, religious, and feminist relations. (May 28, 2009)

associate provost and dean of continuing studies Charlie Junkerman introduces readers to Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel. (May 2009)

English Professor Elizabeth Tallent introduces readers to Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro. (March 2009)

Valerie Miner introduces the book salon group to "Orpheus Lost," by Janette Turner Hospital. (February 2009)

Martin Evans introduces the book salon group to "The Quiet American," by Graham Greene. (January 2009)

Stanford English Professor, Martin Evans, examines the once controversial novel "The Quiet American" by Graham Green, with Stanford alumni. (January 28, 2009)

Rick Banks introduces the book salon group to Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father." (November 2008)

Dana Gioia, guest host, introduces the book salon group to The Poetry of Robert Frost. (September 2008)

The Book Salon group discusses Philip Roth's The Plot Against America with David Kerns. (March 31, 2008)

Tamar Herzog, faculty host, introduces the book salon group to Shadow of the Wind. (November 2007)

David Kerns, faculty host, introduces the book salon group to The Plot Against America. (March 2008)

Albert Gelpi, faculty host, introduces the book salon group to The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers. (February 2008)

Blakey Vermeule, faculty host, introduces the book salon group to Elizabeth Costello. (January 2008)

The Book Salon group discusses Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind with Tamar Herzog. (December 5, 2007)

The Book Salon group discusses Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose with Nancy Packer.

Nancy Packer introduces Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose.

English professor emerita Diane Middlebrook interviews guest reader and A.C.T. creative director, Carey Perloff, '80, about Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard.

English professor emerita Diane Middlebrook interview Rob Polhemus, chairman of the English department, about Atonement, Ian McEwan.

English professor emerita Diane Middlebrook interviews guest reader Marie Earl, '78, MLA '98, about Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie; translated from the French by Ina Rilke.

Marie Earl, '78, MLA '98, interviews Scotty McLennan, dean for religious life at Stanford, about Brick Lane, by Monica Ali.

English professor emerita Diane Middlebrook interviews guest reader Adam Johnson, Jones Lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing at Stanford, about Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer.