Boston Book Festival

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2009 Event Descriptions

Matters of Faith

1 p.m., Boston Public Library Popular Reading Room

Cornel West is one of America’s most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals and author of the bestsellers Race Matters and Democracy Matters. In his poignant new memoir, Brother West, he examines his transformation from a schoolyard Robin Hood to a progressive cultural icon. Harvey Cox is the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard, and the author of The Secular City, which has sold more than one million copies, and most recently, The Future of Faith. Acclaimed novelist Mary Gordon leads the reader on a very personal journey through the Gospels in her new book, Reading Jesus. Christopher Lydon hosts.

 

 

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Cornel West

Harvey Cox

Mary Gordon

Christopher Lydon