03 Aug Bookish Events
Great Books Discussion Group (Virtual)
Fridays @ 10AM on Zoom
December 1 through April 26
Read and discuss classic short works with fellow intellectuals from around the country. Registration required. The Zoom ID/password will be sent via email with your registration confirmation.
The selections to be discussed are widely available from three sources:
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, Edited by Tobias Wolff, referenced as VB.
Great Short Stories of the Masters, Charles Neider, Editor, referenced as GSS.
Found on the Internet are referenced as INT.
2024 Reading List:
Jan. 19, 2024
Joseph Conrad, An Anarchist, The Short Story Project, Internet
Kate Braverman, Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta, P. 89, Wolff
Youth is Beautiful, Hermann Hesse, Prospero’s Isle, Internet
Jan. 26, 2024
Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat, Fountainhead Press, Internet
Chopin in Winter, Stuart Dybek, P.141, Wolff
The Unknown Masterpiece, Honore’ de Balzac, Prospero’s Isle, Internet
Feb. 2, 2024
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,
Raymond Carver, tnsatlantic.org, INT.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,
Nathan Englander, Writer’s Village University. INT.
Savannah -La- Mar, Thomas De Quincey, P. 48, GSS.
Feb. 9, 2024
Maxim Gorky, One Autuum Night, American Liturature.com. INT.
Edward D. Jones, The First Day, Wolff, P.286.
My Mother, Andre Gide, GSS, P.99.
Feb. 16,2024
D.H. Lawrence, The Blind Man, Weber State University, INT.
That in Aleppo Once, Vladimir Nabokov, Mass. Inst of Tech. INT.
Mart Gaitskill, A Romantic Weekend, Wolff, P. 185.
Feb. 23, 2024
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums, Literary Fictions.com, INT.
Every Day Use, Alice Walker, Harpers Magazine, INT.
Richard Ford, Rock Springs, Wolff, P.162.
March 1, 2024
Solange, Alexander Dumas, New Musicals.Inc, INT
A Tale of Olden Time, Heinrich, GSS, P. 116
Amy Tan, Rules of the Game, Wolff, P. 497
March 8, 2024
Jack London, By the Turtles of Tasman, INT
Minor Heroism, Allen Gurganus, Wolff, P. 207
The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller, GSS, P. 73
March 15, 2024
Sea Oak, George Saunders, Barcelona Review, INT
The History of Krakatuk, E.T.A. Hoffmann, GSS, P. 152
Aunt Granny Lith, Chris Offutt, Wolff, P. 385
March 22, 2024
Willa Cather, Eric Hermannson’s Soul, University of Nebraska INT
Emergency, Dennis Johnson, Wolff, P274
The Disabled Soldier, Oliver Goldsmith, GSS, P. 103
NO MEETING FRIDAY, MARCH 29
April 5, 2024
Chekhov, A Living Chattel, Prosporo’s Isle INT
Gabriel Garcia Marques, The Handsomest Drowned
Man in the World, ndsu.eds, INT
Daddy Garbage,John Edgar Wideman, Wolff, P. 521
NO MEETING FRIDAY, APRIL 12
April 19, 2024
The Kreuzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy, Prosporo’s Isle
James Joyce, GSS, P. 199
The Begger Woman of Locarno, GSS, P. 211
April 26, 2024
Raymond Carver, Cathedral, Wolff, P. 108
Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor, GSS, P. 205
Frank O’conner, The Majestry of the Law, Tania
Hirshman, Number 25b, INT, scroll down to story
May 3, 2024
Bernard Malamud, The Mourners, Story of the Week, INT
Dog Heaven, Stephanie Vaughn, Wolff, P. 509
The Massacre of the Innocents, Maurice Maeterlince, GSS, P.266
Monday Afternoon Book Group
Stay connected and engaged with other avid readers at our Monday Afternoon Book Group. We read and discuss a variety of current and popular fiction. Participants are asked to supply their own reading copies. We meet at 1 pm on the 4th Monday of the month in the Delray Beach Public Library meeting rooms.
2024 Reading List:
January 22: Trust by Herman Diaz (Co-Winner Pulitzer Prize)
February 26: South to America: A Journey below the Mason Dixon Line by Imani Perry (Winner National Book Award for Nonfiction)
March 25: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
April 22: Zero Sum: Stories Joyce Carol Oates
*May 20: The Hero of this Book Elizabeth McCracken (*The third Monday due to holiday)
June 24: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese
August 26: Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
September 23: Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
October 28: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Co-Winner Pulitzer Prize)
November 25: If I Survive You by Jonayjam Escoffey
Free; Registration required.
Tuesday Book Group
Meets at 6 pm the 2nd Tuesday of the Month in the Small Meeting Room on the first floor of the Library. Registration is required for social distancing. Participants are asked to supply their own reading copy of the book.
2024 Reading List:
January 9: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
February 13: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
March 12: Book of the Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
April 9: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
May 14: River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
June 11: Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
July 9: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
August 13: Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
September 10: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
October 8: The Fraud by Zadie Smith
November 12: Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
December 10: The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Free; Registration required.