The Slow Reading Discussion Group will start off the 2024-25 year with a close study of ten stories by the great Canadian master of the form and Nobel Laureate, Alice Munro, who died this past May.
The Slow Reading Discussion Group will start off the 2024-25 year with a close study of ten stories by the great Canadian master of the form and Nobel Laureate, Alice Munro, who died this past May. This will take us through November, after which we will read works in various genres (novel, short story, memoir) that deal with the theme of displacement--surely one of the defining features of our current tumultuous moment in history. Displacement may involve a move from one country to another, one community to another, or simply one house to another, but it is always wrenching. Participants will be invited to write about their own experiences (large or small) of displacement. For this session, please read: "To Reach Japan" -- in Dear Life (2012) and Narrative Magazine (no date). "Haven" -- in Dear Life and The New Yorker (3/5/2012). This series funded by the White Plains Library Foundation.
