However, if the famous scholar offers you an opportunity for follow-up, take it. If Aristotle says, “Next week, email me and remind me to send you information about such-and-such,” do it.

The legal scholar Cass Sunstein, whose new book is titled “How to Become Famous,” heads to the Garden, where Seth Meyers and Anya Taylor-Joy roam the V.I.P. section, H. C. Wilentz writes.

Famous scholars may need to have their biases called out, and up-and-coming academics with fresh new ideas may need to be checked on their facts.