All:
We had a bit of a tie for the book selection this month, so I'm casting my vote for The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. Meg Wolitzer, a professor in the Creative Writing MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, was a guest artist at the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center in 2014 and participated in a reading at the Lewis Center earlier this year. Bonus - Nora Ephron turned one of her books ("This is My Life") into a movie!
Excerpt from the NY Times book review:
“The Interestings” is warm, all-American and acutely perceptive about the
feelings and motivations of its characters, male and female, young and old, gay
and straight; but it’s also stealthily, unassumingly and undeniably a novel of
ideas. Wolitzer has been writing excellent fiction for 30 years, and it has
always been this astute. From the start, her subject has been the practical,
emotional and sexual fallout of women’s liberation, particularly as it affects
mothers and children. But here she has written a novel that speaks as directly
to men as to women. With this book, she has surpassed herself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/books/review/the-interestings-by-meg-wolitzer.html?_r=0
Meeting details:
Date: November 3rd
Time: 7-9pm
Location: East Pyne 111
All the best,
Linsay
PS: For those of you who are new to this list and/or the book club, I wanted to circulate a list of the 2014 - 2015 books. Thanks to everyone who read and discussed so many great (some disputably flawed) books!
September 14, 2014 - "The Alchemist" by Paul Coelho
October 14, 2014 - "Independence Day" by Richard Ford
November 14, 2014 - "The Surrendered" by Chang-Rae Lee (guest)
December 14, 2014 - "Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Wife" by Queen Noor '73
January/February 15, 2015 - "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer '99
March 15, 2015 - "Would You Kill the Fat Man?" by David Edmonds
April 15, 2015 - "The Fifth Gospel" by Ian Caldwell '98 (guest)
May 15, 2015 - "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain '89
June 15, 2015 - "Freedom of Choice" by Evie Nagy '98