Our next round of discussion titles will circle the author: books on writers Louis Bromfield (Heyman) and James Baldwin (Glaude); an imagined life of Robert Burns (McCallum); fictional writers, such as a cancer patient having hard conversations with her mother (Strout) and a fictionalized memoir of a dying brother and family history (Urrea) ; pandemic essays (Smith) and travel essays (Lopez) and memoir of early life (Solnit) and eco-memoir (Kimmerer).
We’ve been on Zoom for the last year, and look forward to meeting again in person. More on the when and where soon.
September (biography) The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Heyman, Stephen October (poetry) No Ruined Stone by Shara McCallum November (novel) My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout December (essays) Intimations by Zadie Smith January (memoir) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer February (biography) Begin Again by Eddie Glaude March (travel essays) Horizon by Barry Lopez April (fictionalized memoir) The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea May (memoir) Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit