November MeTa Book Club September 7, 2011 9:49 AM Subscribe
Disclosure: this is the monthly MeTa book club notice.
The often controversial Philip Roth capped his Zuckerman trilogy of books with The Human Stain. The book won the WH Smith Literary award for 2001. It was also the basis for the 2003 movie, The Human Stain.
MeTa Book Club will discuss the book, along with the three accompanying lectures by Yale professor Amy Hungerford, on MetaChat on November 9. Please feel free to join us -- just sign up for MetaChat, read/view/listen to the Hungerford lectures, and check into the MeCha thread on November 9. Please memail me your email address if you'd like September reminder emails -- I'll be out of email contact in October.
MeTa Book Club will discuss the book, along with the three accompanying lectures by Yale professor Amy Hungerford, on MetaChat on November 9. Please feel free to join us -- just sign up for MetaChat, read/view/listen to the Hungerford lectures, and check into the MeCha thread on November 9. Please memail me your email address if you'd like September reminder emails -- I'll be out of email contact in October.
(btw, if you guys ever want to do Inifinite Jest, I'm reading it now and would be totally down to talk about it with people.)
posted by kaibutsu at 7:35 PM on September 7, 2011
posted by kaibutsu at 7:35 PM on September 7, 2011
Argh...I told myself the next thing by him would be Porntoy's Complaint...cos I'm really into dirty dirty books right now and think it's an art that is sadly in a stagnant state and I recently read Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and holy fuck was that fucking nasty dirty sensual and tres tres excellente.
Tempted though, if my mercurial schedule allows. American Pastoral was a frickin' mind bomb. In a good way. I learned so much about the 60s from that book.
posted by Skygazer at 10:24 PM on September 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
Tempted though, if my mercurial schedule allows. American Pastoral was a frickin' mind bomb. In a good way. I learned so much about the 60s from that book.
posted by Skygazer at 10:24 PM on September 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
Oh ho! This happens to be on one end of one of the front rows of books on my shelf, the unread rows you know. It'll be next then. Cool!
posted by carsonb at 11:29 AM on September 8, 2011
posted by carsonb at 11:29 AM on September 8, 2011
Argh...I told myself the next thing by him would be Porntoy's Complaint...cos I'm really into dirty dirty books right now and think it's an art that is sadly in a stagnant state and I recently read Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and holy fuck was that fucking nasty dirty sensual and tres tres excellente.
Portnoy is great, but if you're really into dirty books I think you want to read Sabbath's Theater.
posted by grobstein at 2:11 PM on September 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
Portnoy is great, but if you're really into dirty books I think you want to read Sabbath's Theater.
posted by grobstein at 2:11 PM on September 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
btw, if you guys ever want to do Inifinite Jest
Actually, MeTa book club is nearing the end of the Open Yale syllabus for American Novel Since 1945, as there are only two more books after this one. So around early 2012 we should be open to any proposal for book club discussion. It probably would be a Good Thing to find a book with some decent online criticism/commentary like the Open Yale lectures, to enrich our book discussions.
Please stay tuned: MeTa book club announcements usually go up near the beginning of each month, and I'll certainly post one when we move beyond the Yale syllabus we've been working through.
posted by bearwife at 2:25 PM on September 8, 2011
Actually, MeTa book club is nearing the end of the Open Yale syllabus for American Novel Since 1945, as there are only two more books after this one. So around early 2012 we should be open to any proposal for book club discussion. It probably would be a Good Thing to find a book with some decent online criticism/commentary like the Open Yale lectures, to enrich our book discussions.
Please stay tuned: MeTa book club announcements usually go up near the beginning of each month, and I'll certainly post one when we move beyond the Yale syllabus we've been working through.
posted by bearwife at 2:25 PM on September 8, 2011
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posted by zarq at 10:41 AM on September 7, 2011