"There are some [slots] like 4 a.m. or whatever that are kind of hard to fill. Although if the London program, the off campus program is going, that's how we've done it in the past. And that's what happened this time too. So we had three or four of those slots were zoomed in from London where it was 10 o'clock in the morning or something. And so they read for that. And so that was kind of cool. We had this transatlantic connection."
- Michael Kowalewski
"We had a visiting prof in the fall [of 2025], Tim Burberry, who did the Tolkien Herbert class... [O]n his own, he organized one for The Hobbit. And that was in the fall. But that is a much shorter book. And so it was basically the class kind of and then a few people that joined in, but they didn't need as many people. So, you know, it worked."
-Michael Kowalewski
"I remember going and Steve Poskanzer, who's in the political science department now, but he was president then, he read early, like at 8:30 or 9:00 in the morning. And I went over to hear him, and he was just reading, you know, and . . . Sayles was basically empty. So you can hear his voice kind of echoing around, and you're looking out [at] all the snow is falling. And it was just a . . . really cool scene. So anybody that was in that marathon remembers the Shandy, we called it, the Shandy Snowstorm."
-Michael Kowaleski
