Cappellos excellent new booklength essay Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form.The Atlantic In twentyfirst century America there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening. Mary Cappellos Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition it is an attempt to restore the lectures capacity to wander question and excite. Cappell