The Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Humanities NY have teamed up to bring you this free series of faculty-led book discussions. Participants will have a chance to come together with others in the NYU/NYC community to talk about four chosen books that examine the natural world from New York to the West. The books include: An Unreasonable Woman, Winter in the Blood, Red-Tails in Love, and Angle of Repose. Facilitated by author and instructor Jan Clausen, these discussions will engage with perspectives that capture the complicated relationship Americans have with the land and living things around them. Throughout, we’ll be asking how each book speaks to our current sense of urgency around environmental issues in a time of cascading threats to the planet we call home. While looking at the four books in sequence offers an especially rich experience, participants are welcome to attend as few or as many sessions as desired.
Afternoon discussions at NYU Midtown at 11 West 42nd St. (between 5th & 6th Avenue), Rm. 527.
Evening discussions at the NYU SPS Building, 7 E. 12th Street (between 5th Ave. & University Pl.) Rm.321.
Friday, October 11th
1:00-2:30 PM
Red-Tails in Love by Marie Winn
In the midst of New York’s Central Park, a group of nature lovers bond over watching and eventually, protecting a pair of red-tailed hawks who have chosen a Fifth Avenue apartment building as a nesting site.
Monday, October 21st
6:00-7:30PM
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
A classic of the Native American renaissance, this novel by James Welch features a young man living on a Montana reservation who seeks some way to connect to his lost heritage.
Friday, November 8th
1:00-2:30 PM
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel tells the story of a retired historian who plans to write about his grandparents’ quintessential American life on the western frontier, only to discover things he might rather not have known.
Thursday, November 14th
6:00-7:30PM
An Unreasonable Woman by Diane Wilson
South Texas shrimper Diane Wilson chronicles her own battle against massive pollution along the Gulf Coast that she calls home.
FREE WITH RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/CALAStory2019
