Thursday, August 19, 2021

Fall 2021/Spring 2022

Fall





September

Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Sabrina and Corina* 
Thursday, 9/23, 2:00-3:00 - ZOOM LINK 



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)















*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.

Friday, August 21, 2020

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


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
 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

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



Thursday, August 22, 2019

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 


Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Fall 18/Spring 19





 

September
Moshin Hamid's Exit West: A Novel

Thursday, 9/20, 1:30-2:30
BH 2243












October
Zora Neale Hurston's
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, Decker Edge

Monday, 10/22, 12-1
BH 2243



November
Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wild

Wednesday, 11/ 14, 12-1
BH 1030 (White Auditorium, hosted by playwright and theater instructor Ashley Edwards)





February
Gabe Habash's Stephen Florida


Tuesday, 2/12, 1-2
BH 2243
March
Shanthi Sekaran's Lucky Boy more



Tuesday, 3/26, 1-2
BH 2243










April
Molly McCully Brown's The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded more




Tuesday, 4/30, 9-10 am
BH 1019