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Steve Koonin, a professor at NYU and author of “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters,” spoke at Claremont McKenna’s Athenaeum on Thursday about his conceptions of the crisis reaction to climate change. https://t.co/cKosYyEyVk

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From the Pitzer Broad Performance Center, poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke read from her newest book “Look at this Blue.” Her soft voice took the audience on an intimate journey of suffering, reflection, realization, and the fights endured for loved ones. https://t.co/KTdRsGpBfK

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Book columnist Ryan Lillestrand PZ ’23 argues that despite its imperfections and fictional nature, Richard Powers' "The Overstory" is a powerful vehicle for environmental activism. https://tsl.news/the-overstory/

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Award-winning actor Stanley Tucci and celebrity chef Ina Garten got together at an Oct. 7 Scripps Presents event to chat about their mutual passion for food, the power in knowing how to cook and Tucci’s new memoir “Taste: My Life Through Food.” https://tsl.news/stanley-tucci-ina-garten/

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New York’s bestselling author of the novel “Fiona and Jane,” Jean Chen Ho was this week’s guest speaker at Scripps College' @Noon, an interactive series that brings together the consortium to engage with scholars, writers, activists and artists to learn. https://t.co/MXxqERj3Im

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Book columnist Reia Li PO ’24 was blown away by the main character— a weird queer biracial Asian femme slacker—in “Pizza Girl,” Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut novel. https://t.co/6BBcdmjOGN

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When book columnist Reia Li PO ‘24 first read Nghi Vo’s novel, “The Chosen and the Beautiful” (2021), she had mixed feelings. It wasn’t until she read Vo’s next book, “Siren Queen” (2022), that she understood why. https://t.co/WsbScWP6gd