Reading Schedule Autmn 2011 Update

James Joyce Society of Sarasota

A N N O U N C E M E N T

This is an update of our fall reading schedule focused on “The Lost Generation.”
First, we would like to remind you once again to read Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises as soon as you can so you will be prepared for our discussions in October. Inexpensive copies of both books are available through Barnes & Noble and Amazon Books.
Below are the dates of the first five sessions offered this fall.
These session, as in the past, fall on the First and the Third Wednesdays of each month, unless otherwise indicated. Time: 10:00 AM Place: North Library

October 5:
--Introduction to “The Lost Generation”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories: “Babylon Revisited” and “One Trip Abroad”

[NOTE: Copies of these stories will be mailed to those attending the first session on
Oct. 5. You will receive them two weeks before the meeting. So please contact
us—via e-mail or phone—to let us know you’ll be there Oct. 5 and we will mail
the stories to you. Please include your address.

October 19:
--Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.

November 2:
--Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

November 16:
--“Prominent Women Writers of the Lost Generation” – which will include
selections from Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, et. al.

[NOTE: Copies of these selections will be handed out at the Nov. 2 meeting.]

December 7:
--“Poets of the Lost Generation: -which will include selections from T.S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, E. E. Cummings, et al.

[NOTE: These selections will be distributed at the Nov. 16 meeting.]

Descriptions of the sessions on December 21 and January 4 and 18 will
be announced at a later date.

P. S. It would be helpful to let us know if you intend to join this group.
Ray Matienzo: (941) 922-4445 raymayday@comcast.net
Margaret Hoffman (941) 358-5827 margli@verizon.net