Reading Group

Summer Reading Group

6.00-8.00 | Elm Library

Over the summer Elm hosts an informal reading group. The discussions will take place from 6.00 to 8.00 on Mondays. Copies of the books we will be discussing will be provided to all participants and food will be served. If you would like to take part in any of these discussions, please contact Peter Wicks.

Current Schedule (Tentative)

6/3 | Nathan King, The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life
6/10 | TBD
6/17 | Michael Roth, The Student: A Short History
6/24 | David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present”
7/1 | Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren, How to Read a Book
7/8 | TBD
7/15 | Roger Scruton, Beauty
7/22 | TBD
7/29 | Paul Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound, The ABC of Reading