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This year, Lit Youngstown's monthly book discussion will focus on the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, fictional works with a...

This year, we're screening a series of writer biopics. YSU film scholar Laura Beadling will lead the discussion. We'll meet at 6:00 in...

Our next round of discussion titles will circle the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, and fictional writer protagonists. We'll...

Our next round of discussion titles will circle the author: books on writers Louis Bromfield (Heyman) and James Baldwin (Glaude); an...

“The personalized salutation, the handwriting quirks, and the inside jokes sprinkled throughout offer a glimpse at an interior world only...

Abby Aguirre of the New Yorker makes note of the relevance and warnings in Octavia Butler’s novel: “Octavia Butler’s tenth novel, Parable...

Uzodinma Iweala praises NoViolet Bulawayo’s first novel in her New York Times review. “Bulawayo is clearly a gifted writer. She...

The Nickel Boys is the next book in our discussion series, this year centered around Black writers. Join us on Zoom, Wednesday, February...

In The Thing Around Your Neck… Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but also America, in twelve dazzling stories that...

Let’s celebrate Black children’s book authors and artists! Bring any book written and/or illustrated by a Black author. We will meet on...

Tess Taylor of NPR describes Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude: “Gay’s poems burst forth in leggy, unexpected ways, zooming in on...

“In an essay on race and memory, Toni Morrison wrote of ‘the stress of remembering, its inevitability, [but] the chances for liberation...

Food for Thought! We missed everyone during our usual summer break. Let’s get the convo re-started with Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man,...

Last round, we enjoyed a series of books surrounding the theme of humankind in the natural world. As usual, we take the summer off and...

The last selection in our series on humankind and the nature world is Bringing Nature Home by Douglas H. Tallamy. This is a fantastic...

We picked this book out half a year ago for our series on humankind in the natural world; who knew it would be so relevant? The Hidden...

Would you like some gentle feedback on new work you’ve written? Bring 12 copies (one poem or excerpt of prose, 2000 words max.). to the...

You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning and Trumbull County libraries, YSU Maag Library via OhioLink and the YSU Barnes & Noble....

You can find copies at the Mahoning and Trumbull County libraries, YSU Maag Library via OhioLink and the YSU Barnes & Noble. Food for...

New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner writes of Bass’s collection, “He is a keen and relentless observer of woods and prairies and beasts...