Next Meeting Date: Tuesday, January 7
Time: 1:30 - 2:30
Where: Beth Emet
In the last meeting, we had a great discussion...
...about Nathan Englander's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," and also about religious identity and trust. Thanks to Marc Rosenberg for assisting with the discussion.
Our group won't be meeting in two weeks..
...as we normally do, because of the holidays. Our next meeting will be in the new year, January 7.
The next story...
...is a classic in the short story genre, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence. The story is an old one, first published in Harper's Bazaar, July 1926; and yet the story is timeless.
A bit of author bio--D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence was born in England in 1885 and died early, in 1930 at the age of 45. His writings were varied in type and included short stories, novels, plays, essays, literary criticisms, poems, and even travelogues. He's best remembered for his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), all of which encountered censorship for their radical portrayals of romance and sexuality, and for sexually explicit language.
Themes in his writings include modernity and social alienation.
"The Rocking Horse Winner" has been selected frequently over the decades for inclusion in anthologies of great short stories.
See you on January 7.
Please RSVP.
Phil
Time: 1:30 - 2:30
Where: Beth Emet
In the last meeting, we had a great discussion...
...about Nathan Englander's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," and also about religious identity and trust. Thanks to Marc Rosenberg for assisting with the discussion.
Our group won't be meeting in two weeks..
...as we normally do, because of the holidays. Our next meeting will be in the new year, January 7.
The next story...
...is a classic in the short story genre, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence. The story is an old one, first published in Harper's Bazaar, July 1926; and yet the story is timeless.
A bit of author bio--D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence was born in England in 1885 and died early, in 1930 at the age of 45. His writings were varied in type and included short stories, novels, plays, essays, literary criticisms, poems, and even travelogues. He's best remembered for his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), all of which encountered censorship for their radical portrayals of romance and sexuality, and for sexually explicit language.
Themes in his writings include modernity and social alienation.
"The Rocking Horse Winner" has been selected frequently over the decades for inclusion in anthologies of great short stories.
See you on January 7.
Please RSVP.
Phil
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