Richard Schweid at Harvard Book Store

Life on the Octopus Farm
The Ethics and Future of Growing the World’s Most Intelligent Invertebrate
by Richard Schweid
186 pp., notes, index
ISBN 978-1-4696-9687-4 $99.00 cloth; ISBN 978-1-4696-9688-1 $24.95 paper
Publication date: August 11, 2026
For more information: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469696881/life-on-the-octopus-farm/

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Harvard Book Store welcomes Richard Schweid—veteran journalist with decades of experience writing on science, politics, natural history and culture, and author of a dozen books—for a discussion of his new book, Life on the Octopus Farm: The Ethics and Future of Growing the World’s Most Intelligent Invertebrate. He will be joined in conversation by Steve Yarbrough—professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College, and author of twelve books, including the Massachusetts Book Award-winner The Unmade World.