Meet some of Oakland Cemetery's most notable residents with author Janice McDonald's new book, Residents of Oakland Cemetery. Tickets: $5 for members (DHC and Oakland) / $10 for non-members. Ticket includes Drink Ticket and book will be available for purchase. Doors open 5::30 PM. The first person buried at Oakland was laid to rest in May 1850, a month before the land was purchased by Atlanta to become its city cemetery. The fast-growing municipality eventually expanded the burial grounds to include 48 acres. Since then, what is now known as Historic Oakland Cemetery has become the final home to more than 70,000 residents.
“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life. “There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn't so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.” Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but controllable. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you're sick. Get advice for how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you'd hoped, and how to talk to your children about your will. (Don't worry: if anyone gets snippy, it'll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how to shut down a loved one's social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner's Guide to the End is “a book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for this other phase of life” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese).
Ben Railton, We the People: The 500 Year Battle Over Who Is American
Ben Railton, We the People: The 500 Year Battle Over Who Is American Tuesday, December 10, 7pm "We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton argues that throughout our history two competing yet interconnected concepts have battled to define our national identity and community: exclusionary and inclusive visions of who gets to be an American. From the earliest moments of European contact with indigenous peoples, through the Revolutionary period's debates on African American slavery, 19th century conflicts over Indian Removal, Mexican landowners, and Chinese immigrants, 20th century controversies around Filipino Americans and Japanese internment, and 21st century fears of Muslim Americans, time and again this defining battle has shaped our society and culture. Carefully exploring and critically examining those histories, and the key stories and figures they feature, is vital to understanding America -- and to making sense of the Trump era, when the battle over who is an American can be found in every significant debate and moment. Ben Railton is Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He writes the daily AmericanStudies public scholarly blog, is a prolific public scholarly Tweeter with more than 38680 followers, and is a frequent contributor to websites such as HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, We're History, the Washington Post's Made by History blog, and the Saturday Evening Post, for which he has written a biweekly online column since January 2018. Dr. Railton is the author of four books, including his most recent, History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), a CHOICE recommended title.
EVENT DETAILS Pushcart Prize–winning author and former Studios of Key West artist in residence Ayse Papatya Bucak returns to the island with her debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism THE TROJAN WAR MUSEUM. In Bucak's dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak's stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.
Christopher Schaberg - SEARCHING FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities
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Come celebrate the launch of Christopher Schaberg's new book, SEARCHING FOR THE ANTROPOCENE:A Journey into the Environmental Humanities. "Moving nimbly between personal narrative and academic theory, Christopher Schaberg locates the Anthropocene in compelling, illustrative sites--from the sand dunes of his Michigan childhood where he gathered stones derived from 350-million-year-old coral to the new billion-dollar airport terminal being built, ill-advisedly, just above sea level in his current home of New Orleans. This is an elegantly-written book that guides us through the dizzying epiphanies of scale, co-implication, and self-recognition that the Anthropocene concept demands." -Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out to perceive a dizzying global matrix, Christopher Schaberg invites readers on an atmospheric, impressionistic adventure with the environmental humanities. Searching for the Anthropocene blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought to ponder human-driven catastrophe on a planetary scale. "This book is not about defining or settling the Anthropocene, but rather about articulating what it's like to live in the Anthropocene, to live with a sense of its nagging presence--even as the stakes grow higher with each passing year, each oncoming storm.Christopher Schaberg wanders Michigan's north woods and far flung airfields to ferret out the absurdity of the ‘Anthropocene'. Schaberg shows how Homo sapiens are no longer in charge of anything, despite our terrifying and irreversible wounding of a planet reeling from climate change. It's a coin-toss whether there will be anything around at the end of the next decade capable of reading this fine book." -- Doug Peacock, author of Grizzly Years (1996) and Walking It Off Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and The End of Airports (2015) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons.
Georgia's oldest bookstore, Horton's has been in business since 1891. Antique shelves and display units showcase new books, gift items, and periodicals. Store cats Mayah, Poe, and Dante are always on hand to help customers choose just the right book or gift.
Meeting Date is December 10th at 5:30 p.m. This month's discussion will focus on the Yule Ball and its prompt: Read a Book about Christmas - our choice is Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Q4 Literary Bookclub at Fiction Addiction Fiction Addiction Sign up for our literary bookclub, sponsored by Emrys. Cost includes all books being discussed for the quarter.
Charis' longest-running book club, Kidliterate, invites you to a fun-loving open house highlighting the joys that can come to adults who read kids' books. Join a group of quirky adults who enjoy reading and discussing Young Adult and Middle Reader books and learn more about the books coming up in 2020. This event is free and open to the public.
Book Club "The House of Broken Angels " (EVENING session)
This group reads and discusses mainly fiction and historical fiction, with a few interesting and relevant non-fiction choices added throughout the year. (Choose either morning session 9-10 am or evening session 6-7 pm. The sessions meet on different days.) Event date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm Event address: 103 W. Marion Avenue Punta Gorda, FL 33950
Carolina Public Humanities: Great Books Reading Group: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (2 of 2)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë featuring Kimberly J. Stern, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Join UNC-Chapel Hill faculty discussion leaders at Flyleaf Books for a robust discussion of classic texts, ancient to modern. This semester, we are hosting one to two sessions per book. Every participant will receive a copy of the book before the first session. Each reading group will meet on successive Tuesdays or Wednesdays from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Due to the nature of the reading groups, refunds cannot be offered. Seats are limited to 20 participants, so sign up early to reserve your spot! For more information or to register for a Carolina Public Humanities program, please visit us at humanities.unc.edu or call our office at (919) 962-1544
When Tue, December 10, 1pm – 2pm Description Do you love to read but hate assigned reading? Do you like reading with others but don't enjoy the pressure of a traditional book club? Would you like to meet other bibliophiles in Boone, maybe from a safe distance? We have just the thing for you! Foggy Pine Books is launching a Silent Book Club and you are invited! You're probably wondering what exactly is a Silent Book Club? It's pretty awesome! You, the reader, come with the book you're currently reading. You can grab a cup of coffee or tea & curl up in one of our chairs or couches with your book. The booksellers will keep track of the time while you get to read in companionable silence with other people for an hour. At the end of the hour, you can head out or, if you want to chat about the book you're reading, you can head into the conference room and discuss your text with other bibliophiles. No pressure. No push to socialize. You don't even have to stay the whole time! We just want you to have a comfy place to read and people to talk to about your book, should you desire to do so. If this sounds like something you would enjoy, come read with us at our twice monthly meetings. We'll meet at 1pm on the second Tuesday for those that have time during the day, and at 6pm on the third Saturday for those that prefer weekends or evenings. We will provide snacks & drinks for our book club members. Read on!
Hosted by the Asheville Art Museum, this monthly discussion is a place to exchange ideas that relate to artworks and the art world. The club typically meets the second Tuesday of every month at noon at Malaprop's. Click here to view important news and find the selection for this month. Event date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 12:00pm Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 12:00pm Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 12:00pm Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 12:00pm
The Oxford Exchange is one of the most unique bookstores in the country. Boasting one of the Tampa Bay Area's top restaurants, a curated gift and lifestyle store, and a state-of-the-art workspace in a breathtaking white brick building, the literary events held at OE are one of a kind and truly unforgettable.
Book Club The Light Princess by George MacDonald. $28 per person. Beer, Wine & Lite Fare Included.
The Geek Book Club meets the second Tuesday of the month at the back of the store. Join us this month, December 10th at 7PM. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette KowalSomething dangerous is afoot in St. Denis. In the space of a few weeks, the normally sleepy village sees attacks on Vietnamese vendors, arson at a local Asian restaurant, subpar truffles from China smuggled into outgoing shipments at a nearby market -- all of it threatening the Dordogne's truffle trade, worth millions of dollars each year, and all of it spelling trouble for Benoît “Bruno” Courreges, master chef, devoted oenophile, and, most important, beloved chief of police. When one of his hunting partners, a noted truffle expert, is murdered, Bruno's investigation into the murky events unfolding around St. Denis becomes infinitely more complicated. His friend wasn't just a connoisseur of French delicacies, he was a former high-profile intelligence agent -- and someone wanted him dead. As the strange crimes continue, Bruno's detective work takes him from sunlit markets to dim cafés, from luxurious feasts to tense negotiations -- from all of the paradisial pleasures of the region to its shadowy underworld -- and reunites him with a lost love, an ambitious policewoman also assigned to the case. Filled with an abundance of food and wine (including, bien sûr, many, many truffles) and a soupçon of romance, Black Diamond is a deliciously entertaining concoction that delivers all the complexity and delights of the Dordogne itself.
Productivity for Writers Instructor: Sarah Ruiz Date: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cost: $65 early-bird registration (before Saturday, Nov. 30); $75 regular registration Level: Beginner and above Description: Sarah Ruiz, educator and writer, will lead a class on productivity, overcoming obstacles, and building effective writing habits. Sarah will address topics such as cultivating consistency and overcoming self-doubt. The class will consist of a combination of exercises, discussion, and lecture. Come join us for an evening of self-reflection, goal-setting, and inspiration! Tickets: https://www.redbudwriting.org/check-out/productivity Event date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm Event address: North Hills 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road Raleigh, NC 27609
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10???|???10:30 AM Storytime for the Wee Ones Join McIntyre's for storytime with our littlest readers -- babies, toddlers and preschoolers are welcome! This week's theme is Yum…Cookies!! Please contact the bookstore with any questions at 919.542.3030.
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