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When? Tuesday, January 5, at 6:30 p.m.
Where? We will meet virtually on Zoom. Here is a link to register for the January meeting:
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"[S]imple awareness is the seed of responsibility." --Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
We are all ready for 2021--a new year, a fresh start . . . and a new list of books for discussion, posted on the right. This year's books look at the pursuit of capital in the Americas and capitalism's means, ends, and limits. They look at our most precious resource, our attention, as capital to be exploited or reclaimed and used wisely. And they encourage us to shift our perspective towards the vast, the slow, the cyclic, the interconnected life of the natural world, the cosmos, deep time, and myth.
We hope you will join the discussions:
When? We will meet the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m.
Where? We will meet virtually on Zoom until CCPL is able to safely resume in-person programming. Here is an invitation to register for the January meeting on Zoom:
Hi there,
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Jan 5, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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If you enjoyed The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power, then you might also like these books suggested by our discussion group members:
"The Education of an Idealist brings a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight. It traces Power's distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. . . . Along the way, she illuminates the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, reminding us how the United States can lead in the world, and why we each have the opportunity to advance the cause of human dignity. Power's memoir is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism--and of one person's fierce determination to make a difference" (from the publisher).
When? Tuesday, December 1, at 6:30 p.m.
Where? The Not Fiction Book Discussion has moved to Zoom! Here is an invitation to register on Zoom:
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We hope you will join the discussion!
If you liked Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow, then you might also like these books suggested by our discussion group members:
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence edited by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain
When? Tuesday, November 10, at 6:30 p.m. Please note that this is the SECOND TUESDAY OF NOVEMBER. We hope you will vote on or before Tuesday, November 3.
Where? Not Fiction Book Discussion has moved to Zoom! We will most likely hold all of our discussions on Zoom through the end of the year.
Here is the invitation to register on Zoom. The meeting code you receive will work for the remainder of the discussions this year.
If you enjoyed The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri, then you might also like these titles about the refugee experience suggested by Nayeri:
Pride and Prejudice: The Best Books on the Refugee Experience From a comedy about a childhood in wartime to a memoir smuggled from Manus Island on a phone, Dina Nayeri selects the best books about asylum. The Guardian, September 30, 2019, online edition.
And these books about migration suggested by Julia Carrie Wong, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Luis Alberto Urrea, Angie Cruz, Mohsin Hamid, Matt de la Peña, Dina Nayeri and Aida Salazar:
'Love, Loss and Longing': The Best Books on Migration, Chosen by Writers Amid the American Dirt controversy, we asked authors of our favorite books about migration for their recommendations. The Guardian, February 6, 2020, online edition.
What is it like to be a refugee? Nayeri, who fled Iran with her mother and brother at the age of 8, and was eventually given asylum in America, gives readers insight into the experience of the world's more than 25 million refugees through her own story and the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers. She asks us to reconsider the stereotypes we hold about people who emigrate and immigrate and to try to understand their motivations and the challenges they face.
When? Tuesday, October 6, at 6:30 p.m.
Where? Not Fiction Book Discussion has moved to Zoom! We will most likely hold all of our discussions on Zoom through the end of the year.
Here is the invitation to register on Zoom. The meeting code you receive will work for the remainder of the discussions this year.
If you liked The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú, then you might also enjoy these books suggested by our discussion group members:
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Lost Children Archive: A Novel by Valeria Luiselli
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff
And in a 2019 interview for The New School, Melanie Odell asked,
"What authors can you recommend who are writing about the border now?"
Cantú replied,
"I think a lot of the best writing about the border has been coming from poets. The poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico and her book The Verging Cities. The Mexican poet Sara Uribe, whose work is referenced in The Line Becomes a River. The essayist Cristina Rivera Garza’s forthcoming book, Dolerse, is one of the most important collections of essays and thinking about the violence happening in Mexico. Reyna Grande’s memoirs and Javier Zamora’s book of poetry, Unaccompanied. One of the most important books I read last year was Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia. She is a thinker and intellectual living in Tijuana. She writes a lot about the intersections of drug war violence in Mexico and US capitalism, and how the spectacle of violence feeds the process of de-humanization."
Join us for a virtual discussion of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Award. After earning a degree in international relations, Cantú, a third-generation Mexican-American, worked as an agent for the United States Border Patrol on the U.S./Mexico border as a way to witness and understand the impact of immigration policy on the lives of people on both sides of the border.
When? Tuesday, September 1, at 6:30 p.m.
Where? Not Fiction Book Discussion is moving to Zoom! We will most likely hold all of our discussions on Zoom through the end of the year.
Here is the invitation to register on Zoom. The meeting code you receive will work for the remainder of the discussions this year.
If you enjoyed What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché, then you might also like these books suggested by our discussion group members:
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible.
Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights. (From the publisher)
