Literature For A Lifetime

Newtown resident Patricia Barkman has launched discussions on fiction books that deal with “Literature Around Catastrophic Events.” The discussions take place at C.H. Booth Library and begin at 7 pm.

People around the world have been witness to many natural and terrorist driven catastrophic events in recent years, from 9/11 and the tsunami of 2004 to Hurricane Katrina and others. Through the discussion of books in this series, participants will have an opportunity to examine some of the emotional, psychological, economic and political impacts events such as these have on people.

The next program will concern Nabokov’s Speak Memory on June 28, and then the series will conclude with Reading Lolita in Tehran for July 5.

Earlier this month the group discussed Balzac and the Little Seamstress on June 7, and the series began in May with a discussion of Asne Seierstad’s The Bookseller of Kabul.

Reservations are not needed, and newcomers are welcome. For additional information call 426-4533.