- BOOKS AND COFFEE 2010
BOOKS AND COFFEE meets from 4:00-5:00 p.m. on the first eight Thursdays of spring semester, when professors from across the university review books from the New York Times bestseller list. Books and Coffee is sponsored by the Department of English. All sessions are free and open to the public.
January 7—Christopher Center Community Room
The Year of the Flood: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by Trisha Mileham,
University Library
January 14—Union Ballroom B
by Edward Kennedy
Reviewed by Roy Austensen,
Department of History
January 21—Union Ballroom B
by Sara Paretsky
Reviewed by Elizabeth Lynn,
Project on Civic Reflection
January 28—Christopher Center Community Room
by Barry Friedman
Reviewed by Larry Baas,
Department of Political Science
February 4—Christopher Center Community Room
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Reviewed by Virginia Shingleton,
Department of Economics
February 11—Christopher Center Community Room
by Franz Wright
Reviewed by Susanna Childress,
Lilly Fellows Program
February 18—Christopher Center Community Room
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass
Reviewed by Bharath Ganesh-Babu,
Department of Geography and Meteorology
February 25—Union Ballroom B
by Elizabeth Strout
Reviewed by Edward Uehling,
Department of English
True Compass: A Memoir
Hardball
The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution
Too Big to Fail: 
Wheeling Motel: Poems
Olive Kitteridge: Fiction