Zora Neale Hurston‘s "Their Eyes Were Watching God" with Aleta Hayes, Robert Harrison, Tobias Wolff

Zora Neale Hurston‘s "Their Eyes Were Watching God" made for an exuberant and provocative discussion on the evening of October 24, 2016 - and a record-breaking audience participation.
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is the passionate, lively tale of a woman's journey to reclaim herself. Pulitzer prizewinning author Alice Walker wrote of this 1937 masterpiece, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”
Another Look Director Robert Pogue Harrison moderated the discussion. Harrison is an acclaimed author and Stanford professor of Italian literature. He writes regularly for the "New York Review of Books" and hosts the popular talk show, “Entitled Opinions.” He was joined by Stanford lecturer Aleta Hayes, a dancer, choreographer, and performer, as well as Tobias Wolff, who is one of America's foremost writers and an English professor emeritus at Stanford.
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Another Look is a seasonal book club that draws together Stanford's top writers and scholars with distinguished figures from the Bay Area and beyond. The books are Stanford’s picks for short masterpieces you may not have read because they have been forgotten, overlooked, or simply have not received the attention they merit.
This event was sponsored by:
Stanford Continuing Studies Program
Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford University Libraries
With special thanks for technical support to:
Roger Winkelman and the Freeman Spogli Institute