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The wonderful LA Review of Books asked some questions about me, and I answered them. Read that back and forth here. It's a little strange.And while you're there, why not look for my review of the wonderful Reinventing Bach, by Paul Elie?

I'm excited to announce that Goodreads is hosting a giveaway of the new book, Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College. There are twenty copies available.Enter now for your chance to win an advance copy.

Forthcoming from Beacon Press, April 16, my latest book: Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College.Video of Zaytuna College's inaugural convocation.

As part of its ongoing Disunion series tracing the course of the Civil War 150 years later, The New York Times Disunion blog is running my essay "Harriet Jacobs's War": What a slave-turned-activist aid worker found in Northern Virginia.NB: An exciting related tweet.

Good evening! And thank you so much for participating in our grand experiment tonight. In the event that anyone wandered in and has no idea what's going on here, I'm Scott Korb and this is what I do, when you're not looking.