| Authors and former Creative Writing Program directors Nancy Packer and John L'Heureux read from their works of fiction and talk about Stanford's renowned writing program, founded by novelist Wallace Stegner. 07DR JSCA 60 min. |
| Maria Cotera, a former graduate student at Stanford University, reads from and talks about the book, Caballero: A Historical Novel. 07DR SCA 30 min. |
| Carl Djerassi, Professor of Chemistry, and known as the "father of the birth control pill," reads from his popular novel, Marx Deceased, and discusses science in fiction. 07DR SCA 50 min. |
| In The Handmaid of Desire, best-selling author John L'Heureux, a professor of English at Stanford University, satirizes academic life and the petty struggles for power and influence that animate every campus. 07DR SCA 40 min. |
| In Jealous Hearted Me Nancy Packer, Professor Emeritus of English, presents a "broken" novel that follows intriguing characters in a Southern family through a series of short stories. 07DR SCA 60 min. |
| A reading of poems, all which involve the color of orange, by Professor of English, Gilbert Sorrentino. 07DR SCA 30 min. |
| Irish poet Eavan Boland, a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry winner, reads from one of her collected works of poems, An Origin Like Water. Her other books include: In a Time of Violence, Outside History, The Journey and Other Poems, Night Feed, In Her Own Image, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and The Poet in Our Time. 07DR SCA 30 min. |
| A reading by Creative Writing Program fellow, Pete Rock from his popular novel, This Is the Place. 07DR SCA 30 min. |