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Maarten Troost visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid." This event took place on July 16, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Lost on Planet China finds Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favorites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange); and hiking (with 80,000 other people) up Tai Shan, China's most revered mountain. But in addition to his trademark gonzo adventures, the book also delivers a telling look at a vast and complex country on the brink of transformation that will soon shape the way we all work, live, and think. As Troost shows, while we may be familiar with Yao Ming or dim sum or the cheap, plastic products that line the shelves of every store, the real China remains a world—indeed, a planet--unto itself. Maarten Troost brings China to life as you've never seen it before, and his insightful, rip-roaringly funny narrative proves that once again he is one of the most entertaining and insightful armchair travel companions around. J. MAARTEN TROOST is the author of Getting Stoned with Savages and The Sex Lives of Cannibals. His essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Prague Post. He spent two years in Kiribati in the Equatorial Pacific and upon his return was hired as a consultant by the World Bank. After several years in Fiji and Vanuatu, he recently relocated to the U.S. and now lives with his wife and two sons in California. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Maarten Troost Lost on Planet China Mystifying Nation Squid Authors@Google atgoogle travel Added: July 17, 2008

Christian Lander visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions." This event took place on July 14, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. You know who they are: They're white people. And they're here, and you're gonna have to deal. Fortunately, here's a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being. Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Christian Lander Stuff White People Like Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions Authors@Google atgoogle Added: July 17, 2008

Katherine Wroth and Chip Giller visit Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss Grist.org. This event took place on June 23, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Katherine Wrote Chip Giller Grist.org Authors@Google atgoogle Added: July 17, 2008

Jonah Lehrer visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "Proust Was a Neuroscientist." This event took place on June 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Jonah Lehrer Proust was Neuroscientist Authors@Google atgoogle brain memory Added: July 16, 2008

Jeffrey Kluger visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "SIMPLEXITY: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and how Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)." This event took place on June 4, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives; how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock; how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art and physics drives jazz; why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better. As simplexity moves from the research lab into popular consciousness it will challenge our models for modern living. Jeffrey Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving theory into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art—your world. Jeffrey's other work includes Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the 1995 movie Apollo 13 was based, and the critically acclaimed Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Jeffrey Kluger Simplexity Why Simple Things Become Complex complexity simplicity Authors@Google atgoogle Added: July 16, 2008

Dr. Kiran Bedi visits Google's Gurgaon, India office to discuss her book "It's Always Possible: Transformation India's Largest Prison." This event took place on May 9, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Kiran Bedi It's Always Possible Transformation India's Largest Prison Authors@Google atgoogle Added: July 16, 2008

Steve LeVine visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia." This event took place on July 15, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Drawing on new interviews with eyewitnesses and the families of victims, LeVine documents the bloodshed that has stained Putin's two terms as president. Putin's Labyrinth is more than an immensely readable exposé. It is highly personal, with the flavor of a memoir. It is a thoughtful book that examines the perplexing question of how Russians manage to negotiate their way around the ever-present danger of violence. It calculates the emotional toll that this lethal maze is exacting on ordinary people, even as they enjoy a dramatically heightened standard of living. Most ominously, it assesses the reopening of hostilities with the West, and the forces that are driving this major new confrontation. Steve LeVine is the author of The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea. He is the chief foreign affairs writer for BusinessWeek and is based in Washington, D.C. He was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years, posted in the Soviet Union, Pakistan, and the Philippines, reporting for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Financial Times, and other publications. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Steve LeVine Putin's Labyrinth Spies Murder Dark Heart New Russia Authors@Google atgoogle Vladimir Added: July 16, 2008

Richard Brookhiser visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "George Washington on Leadership." This event took place on July 14, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. With his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly examines the details of Washington's life that fullscale biographies sweep over, to instruct us in true leadership. George Washington on Leadership is a textbook look at Washington's three spectacularly successful careers as an executive: general, president, and tycoon. Brookhiser explains how Washington maximized his strengths and overcame his flaws, and inspires us to do likewise. It shows how one man's struggles and successes 200 years ago can be a model for leaders today. Richard Brookhiser is the author of What Would the Founders Do?, Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, American, and America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918. He wrote and hosted the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Rediscovering George Washington, is a columnist for TIME magazine, and is a senior editor of National Review. He has written for The New Yorker and the New York Times. He lives in New York City. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Richard Brookhiser George Washington on Leadership Authors@Google atgoogle Google president leader Added: July 16, 2008

Author Peter Gosselin visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families". The event took place July 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series. The U.S. economy is wrapping up 25 years of some of the strongest growth in its history. At the same time, Americans report feeling more economically insecure than ever. Gosselin discusses this threat to working Americans' security and what to do about it. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Peter Gosselin High Wire The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families atgoogle Authors@google Added: July 15, 2008

Marie Brenner visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book "Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found." This event took place on June 26, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Marie Brenner's brother, Carl--yin to her yang, red state to her blue state--lived in Texas and in the apple country of Washington state, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and attending church, while Marie, a world-class journalist and bestselling author, led a sophisticated life among the "New York libs" her brother loathed. After many years apart, a medical crisis pushed them back into each other's lives. Marie temporarily abandoned her job at Vanity Fair magazine, her friends, and her husband to try to help her brother. Except that Carl fought her every step of the way. "I told you to stay away from the apple country," he barked when she showed up. And, "Don't tell anyone out here you're from New York City. They'll get the wrong idea." Marie Brenner is Writer at Large for Vanity Fair. Her exposé of the tobacco industry, "The Man Who Knew Too Much," was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider. She is also the author of the bestselling House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Marie Brenner Apples and Oranges My Brother Me Lost Found Authors@Google atgoogle Google siblings rivalry Vanity Fair Added: July 11, 2008

CEO Jim Moriarty visits Google's Mountain View, CA campus to discuss his work with the Surfrider Foundation. This event took place on July 10, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Jim Moriarty, CEO, is an avid surfer, entrepreneur and innovator. Moriarty has more than 15 years management experience in corporate start-ups, specializing in e-learning, e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business-to-business ventures. He lives with his wife and two children in Solana Beach, CA, where he is also active leading and mentoring high school students on surfing and home-building trips to the Baja Peninsula. He brings to the position a wealth of international, fundraising and team-building experience that translate to leading the Surfrider Foundation. Jim holds a B.S. in Information Systems from The Ohio State University, and has had speaking engagements in the US, Europe, Australia and Latin America. His home break is Cardiff Reef. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Jim Moriarty Surfrider Foundation Authors@Google atgoogle Google ocean preservation preserve wave beach Added: July 11, 2008

Professor Dan Ariely visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions." This event took place on July 1, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable—making us predictably irrational. Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he holds a joint appointment between MIT's Media Laboratory and the Sloan School of Management. He is also a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a visiting professor at Duke University. Ariely wrote this book while he was a fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational the Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions Authors@Google atgoogle illogical behavior Added: July 9, 2008

William Poy Lee visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother." This event took place on July 1, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. The award winning memoir of local author William Poy Lee and his Toisanese mother, Poy Jen Lee, The Eighth Promise, sweeps through history, from the brutal 1930s Japanese invasion of the mother's childhood village to the 1960s San Francisco of the author's own coming-of-age: face-to-face with Jimi Hendrix and the counterculture at the Summer Solstice Festival, dodging tear gas bombs and police clubs protesting the Vietnam War, co-organizing the first Chinatown civil rights march along Grant Avenue, and finally, leading the charge for justice to correct his younger brother's wrongful conviction during the so-called Chinatown "Gang Wars" of the 1970s. William Poy Lee worked in Silicon Valley when he began writing, including a stint with Frank Quattrone who then headed the investment banking group, Deutche Morgan Grenfell Technology Group. He is also an attorney, presenter, and contributor to California Magazine and AARP Media. For more information on his book, please visit: www.TheEighthPromise.com. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: William Poy Lee The Eighth Promise An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: July 7, 2008

Comedian Brian Copeland visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his books "Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs." This event took place on June 23, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Based on the longest-running one-man show in San Francisco history, Not a Genuine Black Man is a hilarious, poignant, and disarming memoir of growing up black in an all-white suburb. In 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family moved from Oakland to San Leandro, California, hoping for a better life. At the time, San Leandro was 99.4 percent white, known nationwide as a racist enclave. This reputation was confirmed almost immediately: Brian got his first look at the inside of a cop car, for being a black kid walking to the park with a baseball bat. Brian grew up to be a successful comedian and radio talk show host, but racism reemerged as an issue -- only in reverse -- when he received an anonymous letter: "As an African American, I am disgusted every time I hear your voice because YOU are not a genuine Black man!" That letter inspired Copeland to revisit his difficult childhood, resulting in a hit one-man show that has now inspired a book. Brian Copeland (http://www.briancopeland.com/) is a comedian whose KGO radio program is the most popular in its time slot. Not a Genuine Black Man is currently in development as an HBO series. Copeland lives in San Leandro, California. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Brian Copeland Not Genuine Black Man Authors@Google atgoogle Google comedy HBO Added: June 30, 2008

Unable to choose between comics & computers, Richard Stevens was lucky enough to be born at the right time to make webcomics. His strip Diesel Sweeties (http://dieselsweeties.com) has been on the web since 2000 and was syndicated into newspapers in 2007. He makes lots and lots of t-shirts and drinks far too much coffee. Meredith Gran was born in 1984, and has been to a lot of diners. She has a degree in animation from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and her webcomic Octopus Pie (http://octopuspie.com) has been online since 2007. This event took place on June 20, 2008 in Mountain View, CA as part of the Authors@Google series. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: google atgoogle Authors@Google Rich Stevens Meredith Gran webcomics Diesel Sweeties Octopus Pie Added: June 27, 2008

Eric Etheridge visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders." This event took place on June 24, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Breach of Peace celebrates the Freedom Riders, featuring rare-seen mug shots alongside stunning contemporary portraits. In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace." Collected here in a richly illustrated, large-format book featuring over seventy contemporary photographs, alongside the original mug shots, and exclusive interviews with former Freedom Riders, is that testament: a moving archive of a chapter in U.S. history that hasn't yet closed. A journalist and photographer, Eric Etheridge grew up in Carthage, Mississippi. He is a former editor at Rolling Stone, The New York Observer and Harper's. In 1995, he co-founded the magazine George with John F. Kennedy, Jr. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Eric Etheridge Breach of Peace Portraits the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Authors@Google atgoogle Google civil Added: June 27, 2008

Emmanuel Gobillot visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "The Connected Leader". This event took place June 20, 2008, as a part of the Leading@google series. For more information about Emmanuel, please visit http://www.emmanuelgobillot.com/ "The Connected Leader" is described by one reviewer as the first leadership book for the MySpace generation. Prior to setting up his own consultancy, Emmanuel was Director of Leadership Services at Global consultancy Hay Group where he also led the consumer sector practice. For the last 10 years he has worked globally with clients ranging from Fortune 500 executives to United Nation's leaders helping them develop their impact. In the first decade of this new millennium, business is no longer hierarchical (as it still remains in many organizations today) nor personal (as we were keen to suggest in the 90s). In this googled world of networks, business is now social. In this world of mass collaboration, business is now communal. Leadership is no longer attached to a role; therefore it becomes everyone's responsibility. In an economy in which no one has to follow you, what makes anyone want to do so? In this fast paced, engaging and participative talk Emmanuel will help you answer the two critical questions of 21st century leadership: 'Am I worth following?' and 'Am I easy to follow?'. When the answer to both of these questions becomes yes, anything becomes possible. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Emmanuel Gobillot Leadership Leading@google authors@google google The Connected Leader Added: June 24, 2008

The Authors@Google program welcomed Dr. Gary Marcus to Google's New York office to discuss his new book "KLUGE: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind". Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature. Taking us on a tour of the fundamental areas of human experience -- memory, belief, decision-making, language, and happiness -- Marcus reveals the myriad ways our minds fall short. He examines why people often vote against their own interests, why money can't buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like "people people left left" ties us in knots even though it's only four words long. Marcus also offers surprisingly effective ways to outwit our inner kluge, for the betterment of ourselves and society. Throughout, he shows how only evolution -- haphazard and undirected -- could have produced the minds we humans have, while making a brilliant case for the power and usefulness of imperfection. This event took place on June 18, 2008 Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Gary Marcus NYU Psychology atgoogltaks Authors@Google KLUGE Added: June 23, 2008

Ed Park visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Personal Days." This event took place on June 18, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs--aka "jackrubs"--to his co-workers. On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin. Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It's a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: "Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?" Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and many other publications. He lives in Manhattan, where he publishes The New-York Ghost. Visit http://www.ed-park.com. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Ed Park Personal Days Novel The Believer Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: June 20, 2008

Glass artist Dale Chihuly visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his Gardens of Glass. This event took place on June 19, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Dale Chihuly is most frequently lauded for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement by expanding its original premise of the solitary artist working in a studio environment to encompass the notion of collaborative teams and a division of labor within the creative process. However, Chihuly's contribution extends well beyond the boundaries both of this movement and even the field of glass: his achievements have influenced contemporary art in general. Chihuly's practice of using teams has led to the development of complex, multipart sculptures of dramatic beauty that place him in the leadership role of moving blown glass out of the confines of the small, precious object and into the realm of large-scale contemporary sculpture. In fact, Chihuly deserves credit for establishing the blown glass form as an accepted vehicle for installation and environmental art beginning in the late twentieth century and continuing today. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Dale Chihuly Gardens of Glass Studio Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: June 20, 2008

Neal Rosenthal visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Reflections of a Wine Merchant." This event took place on June 13, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In the late 1970s, Neal I. Rosenthal set out to learn everything he could about wine. Today, he is one of the most successful importers of traditionally made wines produced by small family-owned estates in France and Italy. Rosenthal has immersed himself in the culture of Old World wine production, working closely with his growers for two and sometimes three generations. He is one of the leading exponents of the concept of "terroir"—the notion that a particular vineyard site imparts distinct qualities of bouquet, flavor, and color to a wine. In Reflections of a Wine Merchant, Rosenthal brings us into the cellars, vineyards, and homes of these vignerons, and his delightful stories about his encounters, relationships, and explorations—and what he has learned along the way—give us an unequaled perspective on winemaking tradition and what threatens it today. Neal I. Rosenthal was born in New York City in 1945 and was educated at Rutgers, Columbia, and New York University. He lives on a fifty-seven-acre farmstead in Pine Plains, New York, which produces organic eggs, buckwheat honey, fruit, and vegetables. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Neal Rosenthal Reflections of Wine Merchant Authors@Google atgoogle Google vineyard winemaking Added: June 19, 2008

Author Matt Ruff visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Bad Monkeys". This event took place on September 19, 2007, as a part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Matt Ruff please visit http://www.bymattruff.com Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: matt ruff bad monkeys authors@google google science fiction phil dick jane charlotte omnes mundum facimus thriller Added: June 18, 2008

Ori Brafman and his brother Rom Brafman visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss Ori's book "Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior." This event took place on June 13, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone "important"? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there's danger involved? In Sway, renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer all these questions and more. Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational behavior, Sway reveals dynamic forces that influence every aspect of our personal and business lives, including loss aversion (our tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses), the diagnosis bias (our inability to reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation), and the "chameleon effect" (our tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us). Ori Brafman is coauthor of The Starfish and the Spider and is a renowned organizational expert who regularly speaks before Fortune 500, governmental, and military audiences. A graduate of Stanford Business School, he lives in San Francisco. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Ori Rom Brafman Sway the Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: June 17, 2008

Matt Richtel visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Hooked: A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions." This event took place on June 16, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Matt Richtel has covered technology and telecommunications in the New York Time's San Francisco bureau since 2000. Under the pen name "Theron Heir," he writes the syndicated daily comic strip, Rudy Park, which is published in newspapers around the country. Dubbed by Newsweek as "a contender for comic strip of the decade," Rudy Park revolves around the lives and employees and regulars of an Internet café. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Matt Richtel Hooked Thriller About Love and Other Addictions Authors@Google atgoogle Google Theron Heir Silicon Valley Added: June 17, 2008

Lori Hope visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book "Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know." This event took place on June 12, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. When we hear that someone close to us has been diagnosed with cancer, we want nothing more than to comfort them with words of hope, support, and love. But sometimes we don't know what to say or do, and don't feel comfortable asking. With sensitive insights and thoughtful anecdotes, Help Me Live provides a personal yet thoroughly researched account of words and actions that are most helpful. Based on the author's own experiences with cancer, as well as interviews and surveys with many others who have had this disease, each chapter tells intimate stories about one of the 20 most important messages people with cancer want to convey Lori Hope, a cancer survivor herself, has produced more than 20 documentaries, winning dozens of awards including two Emmys. Currently managing editor of Bay Area BusinessWoman News, Hope has been published in Newsweek and her essays have been broadcast on radio stations nationwide. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Lori Hope 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: June 17, 2008

Benjamin Wallace visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine." This event took place on June 6, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie's of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. Why wouldn't Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did his reticence conceal an even darker secret? Benjamin Wallace has written for GQ, Food & Wine, and Philadelphia, where he was the executive editor. He lives in Brooklyn. Visit his website at http://BenjaminWallace.net. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Benjamin Wallace The Billionaire's Vinegar Mystery World's Most Expensive Bottle Wine Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: June 16, 2008

The Authors@Google program was thrilled to welcome renowned authors Salman Rushdie to Google's New York office to discuss his new book "The Enchantress of Florence". Salman Rushdie is the multi-award-winning author of, amongst others, "Midnight's Children", "Shalimar the Clown", "The Satanic Verses", and "Shame". Rushdie is currently the Emory University Distinguished Writer in Residence and was recently awarded knighthood for his services to literature. This event took place on June 5, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Salman Rushdie Authors@Google atgoogletalks The Enchantress of Florence Added: June 16, 2008

Author Benjamin Wallace visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "The Billionaire's Vinegar". This talk took place on June 6, 2008, as part of the Author@google series. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Benjamin Wallace Billionaire's Vinegar atgoogle authors@google Added: June 13, 2008

Nick Taylor visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Disagreement." This event took place on June 10, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. "At its best, historical fiction reveals the truth or reality of the past. Nick Taylor has achieved this in his very fine book. Taylor has chosen to see the Civil War's human wreckage through the eyes of a young Confederate surgeon at a hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. The result is a compelling and moving novel." -- Jeffry D. Wert, Civil War historian It is April 17, 1861 -- the day that Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war. In this story of love, loyalty, and unimaginable sacrifice, a doctor struggles to balance the passions of youth with the weight of responsibility. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Nick Taylor The Disagreement Authors@Google atgoogle Google Civil War Commonwealth Added: June 12, 2008

Author Benjamin Wallace visits the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Ca, to discuss his book "The Billionaire's Vinegar". This talk took place June 6, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie's of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. Why wouldn't Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did his reticence conceal an even darker secret? Benjamin Wallace has written for GQ, Food & Wine, and Philadelphia, where he was the executive editor. He lives in Brooklyn. Visit his website at http://BenjaminWallace.net Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Benjamin Wallace Billionaire's Vinegar atgoogle authors@google Added: June 12, 2008