About Writer as Witness Breakfast

Every year, the Department of Literature and the College Writing Program select a book, called the “community text,” for all of AU’s incoming freshmen to read prior to arriving on campus in the fall.  As a special treat, all incoming Honors freshmen are annually invited to share breakfast with the community text author.  Students engage with the writer through discussion and often get their copies of the book signed afterwards.

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This year, Farhad Manjoo’s True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society was selected.  Manjoo, who is a staff writer for Slate, was the twelfth annual Writer as Witness.  He addressed the Honors freshmen at the Writer as Witness Breakfast on Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, and the wider AU community later that day in Bender Arena.

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Archive

2008: The Devil’s Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea

2007: The Ponds of Kalambayi, by Mike Tidwell

2006: Love in the Driest Season, by Neely Tucker

2005: Fragments of Grace, by Pamela Constable

2004: Newjack, by Ted Conover

2003: First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung

2002: Savage Inequalities, by Jonathan Kozol

2001: Bad Land, by Jonathan Raban

2000: Almost a Woman, by Esmeralda Santiago

1999: My Own Country, by Abraham Verghese

1998: There Are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz

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