Short Takes

Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky's research on primates is the subject of Stress: Portrait of a Killer. A co-production by Stanford and National Geographic Television, the PBS special will air September 24. Randy Bean, '82, was executive producer. • Creative writing professor Tobias Wolff will receive Litquake's Barbary Coast Award at the San Francisco book festival October 7. Word for Word, a theater company that performs short fiction verbatim, will perform three Wolff works September 12 through October 5 at Fort Mason, with a September 13 benefit featuring the author. • Film and TV actor Andre Braugher, '84, returning to the stage after 12 years, played Claudius in the Public Theatre's Hamlet in Central Park. • Harriet Clark, '02, and Jesmyn Ward, '99, MA '00, are incoming Stegner fellows in fiction. • Belgian filmmaker Maria Vaccaro, a trailing spouse, made the documentary Women in a New Land, about four women (from France, Japan, South African and Germany) who followed their husbands overseas to Stanford.