Fall 2024/Spring 2025

Work in Progress!

Fall

September

Sarah Mirk's graphic novel: *Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison

Wednesday, September 18, 3-4

BH 2243

More at Graphic Novel Prize

October

Luis Urrea's , *The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Wednesday, October 9, 5:30-6:30
Peterson Auditorium, SGBDC 1047
Part of NWACC's Hispanic Heritage Month

More at WHY

November

Edwidge Danticat's *The Dew Breaker

Wednesday, November 20, 2-3

BH 2243

with guest host Yanick St. Jean, Sociologist

More at Review

Spring

February

Cherie Dimaline's, *The Marrow Thieves

Thursday, February 13, 12-1 

Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243)

More at A Best Book of All Time

March

Canese Jarboe's Sissy

Wednesday, March 5, 12-1:15

SC 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture Festival. 

More at Garden Door.

April (poetry month!)

Melissa Lozada-Olivia's, *Peluda

Wednesday, April 9, 12-1 

Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243)

More at Poems

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also usually one copy in the NWACC library and at many local libraries.

Fall 2023/Spring 2024

 

Fall

September

Reginald Dwayne Betts' poetry, *Felon

Thursday, September 14, 10-11

BH 2243

More at NPR

October

Shehan Karunatilaka's *The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Friday, October 27, 11-12

BH 2243

More at Booker Prize

November

Grace M. Cho's memoir, *Tastes Like War

Thursday, November 30, 11-12

BH 2243

More at National Book Award Finalist

Spring

February

Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou's graphic novel, *Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Wednesday, February 7, 3-4

Greenhouse Conference Room (BH 1444)

More at NYT

March

Rebekah Taussig's essay collection, *Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Thursday, March 7, 4:30-5:45

SC 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture festival. 

April

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.'s debut bestseller, *Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Tuesday, April 16, 12-1

Greenhouse Conference Room (BH 1444)

More at Interview

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also always one copy in the NWACC library.

Fall 2022/Spring 2023

Fall

September

Lauren Redniss's visual nonfiction, Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Wednesday, 9/21, 3-4
BH 2243 and on Teams 

More at NPR

October

Francisco Cantu's memoir' The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Tuesday, 10/11, 1:30-2:30 
BH 2243 and on Google Hangout

More at PBS

November

Charles Yu's novel, Interior Chinatown

Thursday, 11/17, 1:30-2:30
BH 2243 and on Google Hangout

More at NEA

December

Ada Limon's poetry, The Hurting Kind

Friday, 12/9, 11-12 
BH 2243 and on Zoom (password: NBC)

More at Milkweed

Spring

January

Join author Myriam J.A. Chancy as she discusses her novel, 
*What Storm, What Thunder!

Monday, 1/23, 2:30-3:30 on Teams

More at NPR

February

Yoko Ogawa's novel, *The Housekeeper and the Professor

Monday, 2/13, 4:00-5:00
BH 2243

More at Princeton

March

Jacob Tobias' memoir, *Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

Wednesday, 3/8, 10:30-11:45
Student Center 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture festival. More at SACF.

April

Anna Malaika Tubb's debut bestseller, *The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Wednesday, 4/5, 12:00-1:00
BH 2239

More at Amazon 

May

bell hook's, *Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom

Friday, 5/5, 11:00-12:00
BH 2239

More at Notre Dame Learning

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. 
Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also always one copy in the NWACC library.

Fall 2021/Spring 2022

Fall

September

Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Sabrina and Corina* 

Thursday, 9/23, 2:00-3:00 - ZOOM LINK 

More at Latino Book Review

October

Doug Wright's play, I Am My Own Wife*

(hosted by playwright and theater professor, Ashley Edwards)

Thursday, 10/21, 12:00-1:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at goodreads.

November

Primo Levi's short story collection, The Periodic Table*

(hosted by political science professor, Matt Evans)

Thursday, 11/18, 2:00-3:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at Books

Spring

February

Tera Westover's Educated*

(hosted by writer and English professor, Lindsay Hutton)

Wednesday, 2/16, 12:00-1:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at PBS

March

Nic Stone's Dear Martin*

(part of the NWACC Spring Arts and Culture Festival, hosted by Sigma Kappa Delta)

Monday, 3/7, 3:00-4:15 (in person in Burns Hall 2239 and on ZOOM LINK)

More at Nic Stone

More at Goodreads.

April

Phuc Tran's Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In*

(hosted by English professor, Jim Laughton)

Tuesday, 4/12, 3:00-4:00 (ZOOM LINK)

More at NPR

More at Goodreads.

May

Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin)*

(hosted by writer and English instructor, Brody Parrish Craig)

Monday, 5//2, 3:00-4:00 (ZOOM LINK)

More at The New Yorker

*First come/first serve copies of the books for loan are available at the NWACC library and by emailing schesne@nwacc.edu. Note that Amazon new and (some cheaper used) books, too.

Fall 2020/Spring 2021

Fall

September

Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere                                         

(hosted by Journalism and English Professor, Denise Nemec)

Tuesday, 9/29, 4:00 - 5:00 - Zoom link

more at The Atlantic

October

Antoinette Nwandu's play, Pass Over

(hosted by playwright and theater professor, Ashley Edwards)

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Friday, 10/23, 11:00-12:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at The Guardian

November/December

Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

(hosted by political science professor, Matt Evans)

Digital copies are available: see Seven Things. Use NWACC sign in. Choose PDF if on computer/EPUB for phones.

Friday, 12/4, 12:00 -1:00 - ZOOM LINK

Spring

February

Luis Alfaro's play Oedipus El Rey

(hosted by playwright and theater professor, Ashley Edwards)

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Wednesday, 2/3, 1:30-2:30

Zoom link

 Watch livestream until 1/20 at Center Theatre.

March

Ayn Rand's novella Anthem

(hosted by Political Science professor, Dr. Matt Evans, and English professor, Sabrina Chesne)

Find the book free at Gutenberg

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Tuesday, 3/2, 10:30-11:45

Zoom link

April

Danez Smith's Homie

(hosted by writer and English instructor, Brody Parrish Craig)

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Wednesday, 4/14, 6:00-7:00

Zoom link

Fall 2019/Spring 2020

2019

September
George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy 
(hosted by Political Science professor Matt Evans)

Tuesday, 9/24, 12-1
BH 2243

More at People's World
 

 
October
Annie Baker's John 
(hosted by playwright and theatre professor Ashley Edwards)

Tuesday, 10/29 1-2
BH 2243


More at TheaterMania

November (Updated date)
Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable
(hosted by Austenist and English professor Sharon Fox) 

Monday, 12/2, 12-1
BH 2239 

 More at NPR

2020 

January

Imani Perry’s Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
(hosted by Political Science professor Matt Evans)

Wednesday, 1/29 12-1
BH 2243 

More at Slate

February (early March) 
Garrard Conley's Boy Erased
(Hosted by the NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture Festival)

Monday Film Screening

Author Talk Wednesday, 3/4 12-1:15, White Auditorium (BH 1030)

Book Club Thursday, 3/5 9-10, SC 108

More at conley