Beginning September 20, Joynes will be giving away free copies of the book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky, an award-winning journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. Honors students will have the opportunity to sign up for a book group that will meet with Lipsky at the Harry Ransom Center on Oct. 15th.
On October 6, at 7PM Israeli journalist Stuart Schoffman will speak in the Joynes Reading Room. He was a Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League in Jerusalem.
On October 22, at 7PM, poet Bill Berkson will visit from San Francisco. Publisher’s Weekly calls him “a serene master of the syntactical sleight, transforming the mundane in the marvelous.” The Joynes Room will give away free copies of Berkson’s latest book in advance of his visit.
On 7PM, October 28, author Peter Maass will visit the Joynes Reading Room to discuss his recent book Crude World, The Violent Twilight of Oil. Students may have seen Maass when he was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Free books in advance for honors students.
On December 2, poet and music critic Stephen Scobie will visit from Canada. He’s written extensively on Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
On February 3 and 4, Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger will visit from Philadelphia. Bissinger is author of Friday Night Lights. Free books in advance for honors students.
On March 23 at 7PM, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan will visit from Seattle. Schenkkan is author of the play The Kentucky Cycle and was recently nominated for two Emmys for his writing on the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
On March 24 at 5PM, as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Plan II Honors Program, a panel of alumni writers will discuss their work. Panelists will include Robert Schenkkan, Joanna Fuhrman and Robert Draper.
On April 21 at 7PM, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will visit from Nigeria to read from her new collection of short stories. She is author of two previous bestselling novels: Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus. Free books in advance for honors students.