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Respected writer Marilynn Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award for best first novel in 1982, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer for fiction that year. (Robinson received the Pulitzer in 2005 for Gilead.) [more inside]
posted by bearwife on May 5, 2011 - 19 comments

It's that monthly book club notice. MeTa book club, still reading our way through the syllabus for the Open Yale course on post WWII US literature, is now reading John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse. Discussion goes up in MetaChat on December 6. Around December 20, in MetaChat, we will discuss next choice of book. Lots more information here in the MetaChat wiki, or via the book club link to the wiki on the Meta Talk sidebar.
posted by bearwife on Nov 3, 2010 - 4 comments

The book club thread is now live on MetaChat. We read Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood along with the lectures on it by Professor Amy Hungerford, here and here. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Apr 21, 2010 - 6 comments

The book club discussion is up on MetaChat, here. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Mar 10, 2010 - 2 comments

We are scheduled to have the first meeting of the American Novel Since 1945 on Tuesday March 9th. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Mar 1, 2010 - 13 comments

Is anyone interested in working through a free class on American Literature since 1945 book club style? [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Feb 5, 2010 - 60 comments