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 | Roger Scruton, Beauty
6/10 | David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present”
6/17 | Nathan King, The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life
6/24 | Andrew Delbanco, “Is Wisdom Still a Value in the Academy?”
7/1 | Paul Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
7/8 | Zena Hitz, “What is Time For?”
7/15 | Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
7/22 | Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture
7/29 | Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound, The ABC of Reading