Videos from the June 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

By Spenser Stevens | July 18 2022 | College & University Reads

On Thursday, June 9th 2022, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for first-year and common reading chairs from colleges and universities from across the country. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured the following PRH authors speaking about their books:

 

Anita Hill, author of Believing

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky

Anna Qu, author of Made in China

Linda Villarosa, author of Under the Skin

 

Here are the videos:

 

Anita Hill, Believing

 

 

Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky

 

 

Anna Qu, Made in China

 

 

Linda Villarosa, Under the Skin

Under a White Sky
Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert
9780593136287
Selected for common reading at:
Paperback
Made in China
Made in China
A Memoir of Love and Labor
Anna Qu
9781646220342
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future.
Hardcover
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Linda Villarosa
9780385544887
From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
Hardcover
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