Three very different explorations of self-identity were mailed to incoming Stanford students several weeks ago as part of this year's "Three Books" program. The authors will appear together Sept. 17 on a panel during New Student Orientation.
This year's books -- Lynda Barry's One! Hundred! Demons!, Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere -- were picked by Professor Andrea Lunsford, director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, and Julie Lythcott-Haims, dean of freshmen.