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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...
Dec 22, 20212 min read


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...
Dec 7, 20211 min read


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...
Nov 19, 20211 min read


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, 20211 min read


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 28, 20212 min read


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...
Oct 16, 20211 min read


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, 20211 min read


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...
Sep 10, 20211 min read


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...
Aug 9, 20212 min read


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, 20211 min read


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...
Apr 18, 20211 min read


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...
Mar 14, 20211 min read


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...
Feb 14, 20211 min read


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...
Jan 25, 20211 min read


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...
Dec 16, 20201 min read


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...
Nov 23, 20201 min read


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...
Oct 24, 20201 min read


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 13, 20201 min read


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,...
Sep 2, 20201 min read


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...
Jun 22, 20202 min read
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