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Visit the D.G.Wills Books YouTube Channel, featuring past appearances by Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Maureen Dowd, Freeman Dyson, Allen Ginsberg,
Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Billy Collins, Iris Chang, Patricia Neal
with Stephen Michael Shearer, Edward Albee, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Senator Byron L. Dorgan.
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UCSD TV: Professor Robert Polito and Patricia Patterson discussing
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Dr. GIDEON RAPPAPORT San Diego’s premier Shakespearean
dramaturge, will discuss his new book APPRECIATING SHAKESPEARE Saturday, March 11, 7PM
Gideon
Rappaport has taught Shakespeare, British Literature, and Humanities
at Hamilton College, SUNY Cortland, Concordia University, and
the University of New Hampshire, and at The Bishop’s School and La
Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, California. His publications include
“Measuring Measure for Measure” in Renascence, “Hamlet:
Revenge and Readiness” in The Upstart Crow, Dusk and
Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, as well as various
reviews and articles for Ararat, Independent School magazine, the Washington
Independent Review of Books, and the San Diego Reader.
He
has also served as theatrical
dramaturge for professional theatres including the Old Globe Theatre,
the California Shakespeare Festival, the British-American Youth
Festival Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the North
Coast Repertory Theatre, the Intrepid Theatre, and the Poor Players, the
New Fortune Theater Company, the Coronado Community Theater, and the online
Working Actor’s Journey, as well as on school productions for The Bishop’s
School and La Jolla Country Day School, and the film Complete Works on
Hulu. He has lectured on literature, poetry, humanities, and in particular
Shakespeare for continued learning programs at the University of
California at San Diego and the University of San Diego, for the Honors
Seminars of the San Diego City Schools, for Friends of the Library in several
cities, for the San Diego Shakespeare Society, for conventions of the National
Association of Independent Schools and of the California Association of Independent
Schools, and regularly offers evening adult courses for community audiences. He
has an honors B.A. in English Literature and Art History from Cowell
College, University of California at Santa Cruz, and an M.A and
Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. ______________________________
Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

Christopher Hitchens

Oscar-Winning Actor Sean Penn

Oscar-Winning Director Oliver Stone

Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert

Francoise Gilot

Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot
at the original store

Michael McClure

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences
Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle

Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen

Quincy Troupe

Iris Chang

Gerry Spence

Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia
Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.

N. Parthasarathi,
Indian Consul General, San Francisco; and Nirupama Rao, Ambassador of India to the U.S.
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Loeb Classical Library and Western Philosophy wall
Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

NORMAN MAILER, l995

Ted Burke, Norman Mailer, Dennis Wills

Allen Ginsberg, l994

The New York Times Pulitzer Prize Columnist
Maureen Dowd

Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, The
New York Times, with Maureen Dowd

Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States,
2001-2003

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Gore Vidal, November 2005

Gore Vidal with Professor Dennis Altman

Gore Vidal, March l998, with noted South African playwright
Athol Fugard in audience

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, February 1995

James D. Watson and Francis Crick with their model of the DNA molecule, the Double Helix, at
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, l953

Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, September 2007

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis

Three & One-Half Time Pulitzer Prize Playwright Edward Albee

Pulitzer Prize Poet Gary Snyder

Pulitzer Prize poet Gary Snyder

Oscar-Winning Actress Patricia Neal with her biographer
Stephen Michael Shearer

Patricia Neal holding a model of "Gort" from the science fiction
film classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus of the University of
California, former UCSD Chancellor and former Director of the National Science Foundation

Renowned scientist Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson with Mrs. Dyson

A visit from Oscar Nominated and Emmy Award Winning
Actor Paul Giamatti

A visit from Jim Belushi, 2003

Jim Belushi at the original store, l988

Claude Picasso and Francoise Gilot
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