January 13 Food for Thought: Braiding Sweetgrass
*New Time* This year, Lit Youngstown's monthly book discussion will focus on the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, fictional...
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- Dec 7, 2021
- 1 min
Film Screening & Discussion December 21
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...
- Nov 19, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Intimations (Live)
This year, Lit Youngstown's monthly book discussion will focus on the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, fictional works with a...
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Film Screening & Discussion November 16
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...
- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
Food for Thought: My Name is Lucy Barton (Live)
This year, Lit Youngstown's monthly book discussion will focus on the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, fictional works with a...
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
Film Screening & Discussion October 19
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...
- Sep 10, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: No Ruined Stone
This year, Lit Youngstown's monthly book discussion will focus on the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, fictional works with a...
- Sep 10, 2021
- 1 min
Film Screening & Discussion Sept. 21
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...
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
Appalachia North by Matthew Ferrence
Our next round of discussion titles will circle the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, and fictional writer protagonists. We'll...
- Apr 18, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Writer-as-Subject
Our next round of discussion titles will circle the author: books on writers Louis Bromfield (Heyman) and James Baldwin (Glaude); an...
- Apr 18, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: An American Marriage (Zoom)
“The personalized salutation, the handwriting quirks, and the inside jokes sprinkled throughout offer a glimpse at an interior world only...
- Mar 14, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Parable of the Sower (Zoom)
Abby Aguirre of the New Yorker makes note of the relevance and warnings in Octavia Butler’s novel: “Octavia Butler’s tenth novel, Parable...
- Feb 14, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: We Need New Names (Zoom)
Uzodinma Iweala praises NoViolet Bulawayo’s first novel in her New York Times review. “Bulawayo is clearly a gifted writer. She...
- Jan 25, 2021
- 1 min
Food for Thought: The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys is the next book in our discussion series, this year centered around Black writers. Join us on Zoom, Wednesday, February...
- Dec 16, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: The Thing Around Your Neck (Zoom)
In The Thing Around Your Neck… Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but also America, in twelve dazzling stories that...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Children’s Book by Black Author (Zoom EST)
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...
- Oct 24, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Zoom)
Tess Taylor of NPR describes Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude: “Gay’s poems burst forth in leggy, unexpected ways, zooming in on...
- Sep 13, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: The Water Dancer
“In an essay on race and memory, Toni Morrison wrote of ‘the stress of remembering, its inevitability, [but] the chances for liberation...
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: The Autograph Man
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,...
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
Food for Thought: Black Authors
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...
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