Compelling Conversations - The Fallacy of Self-Interest

Join us for the next installment in the Provost’s Compelling Conversation Series with award-winning writer Andrew Solomon. We anticipate a wide-ranging conversation covering his life’s work and his views on some of the diverse subjects he has wrangled with over his remarkable career: depression and mental health, LGBT rights, deaf culture, the arts, and education.

Solomon will be in conversation with Greg Hajcak, the Sheri Sobrato Professor of Child & Adolescent Mental Health in the Department of Clinical Psychology at SCU.

Coffee, tea, and dessert will be served.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Locatelli Student Activities Center

Please RSVP.

Andrew Solomon’s writings on culture, politics, and psychology have been widely recognized. His book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity received the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award, and Far and Away: How Travel can Change the World was identified as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2016 by the New York Times. He is also the author of a novel, The Stone Boat, and articles and essays in such venues as The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Food and Wine, and The Advocate.