Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the New York Times best seller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), will speak at the first Common Hour of the 2012 spring semester at 12:30 p.m., Friday, January 27, in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.

This special Common Hour, presented in conjunction with the Brunswick-Bowdoin Community Read, is open to the public free of charge. Read more.

Forecaster reporter Emily Guerin ’09 writes about the Community Read in the article, “Book Discussion Brings Together Brunswick Residents, Bowdoin College Students.”