Wash U's fall Assembly Series of speakers has been announced (or, the "poor man's Speakers' Series," as I call it, since you don't have to mortgage your house to hear interesting ideas), and includes Tony LaRussa, David Horowitz, Carlos Fuentes, Lorenzo Carcaterra and more.

The best installment of this ever remains the morning that Dave Eggers spoke and, among other antics, invited a student who'd received a bad grade from a professor to confront the prof onstage and talk it out. Eggers also had his honorarium divvied up into five-dollar bills which he handed out, one by one, to the audience members.

I will say, though, that both series linked to here are woefully short of the fairer sex.

Posted under People by Amanda Doyle on Thu., Jul 21, 2005 at 12:27 PM