Authorial Intent: Brains, Peanuts, Lou Dobbs

Wednesday, November 14

Jonah Lehrer, Harvard Book Store, Proust Was A Neuroscientist, 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Lehrer, a Rhodes scholar and writer/line cook/lab tech, dives into works of classic literature and art and finds out how each work beat neuroscientists at determining how the mind works. Check out Bostonist's interview with Lehrer.

Thursday, November 15

David Michaelis, 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Michaelis is the biographer of Charles Schulz, the creator of "Peanuts." Imagine our surprise when we found out that Schulz wasn't exactly the happiest guy in the world and despised Garfield for encroaching on his turf.

Rami Khouri, 6:30 pm, Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Research Center, Northeastern University, Ford Hall Forum Series.
Khouri, a columnist based in Beirut, shares what his book title calls "A Critical Arab View of America's Middle East Policies." It's good he's talking--but is anyone leading America in such matters listening?

Monday, November 19

Lou Dobbs, 6:30 pm, Old South meeting House, Ford Hall Forum Series.
Quick--build a border! CNN anchor, one-man border patrol, and Harvard daddy Lou Dobbs will be speaking about his book A New America: Awakening the National Spirit. (Is he going all "Morning in America" on us?)