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The Newman Book Club
"Reading works of fiction by authors with catholic sensibilities."
1st Wednesdays of the Month (mostly) at 7:30pm in the Fr Quigley Rm.
This Month's Selection
Welcome to the Newman Book Club where we read works of fiction by authors with catholic sensibilities (we don't say 'Catholic authors' so we can work in the likes of C.S. Lewis et al.) The Book Club is open to everyone. No attendance is taken, no commitment needed other than to read the months selection and come ready to join in the discussion. Come whenever your schedule allows and curiosity is peeked.
Titles are selected by the group. Checkout the books selections for this year.
We read one book (or selection from a larger book, or collection of short stories) each month. We then gather on the 1st Wednesday of the following month to drink coffee or tea, eat pastries and, oh ya, talk about the book (you can always tell when Fr Doug is involved, there's food).
Purchase your books through by clicking on an Amazon.com link in this Website and Newman gets a percentage of the sale. It's a great way to help support Newman. |  | | FALL 2008-Spring 2009 BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS | | Date | Title | Notes: (1st Wednesdays of the month 7:30pm, The Fr Quigley Rm.) | | Sep. 10th |  | The Best of the Cardinal Newman Short Story Competition 2008
In the spring of '08, Newman ran its first Short Story Competition. Using the Book Club's motto, the competition called for original works of fiction by authors with Catholic sensibilities. It was open to all undergraduates of the Five Colleges. We will be reading the four winning submissions. For a copy of the book, stop by the Newman Catholic center or contact Fr Doug (413)549-0300 x34
N.B. second Wednesday this month | | Oct. 1st |   | The Stories of J. F. Powers
J.F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Dudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. This month, we will be reading his first two short stories: The Lord's Day & The Trouble | | Nov. 5th |   | Exiles, by Ron Hansen
With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry.
Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkin's own life this novel dramatizes the passionate inner search of religious life and makes it accessible to us in the way that only great fiction can. | | Dec. 3rd |   | Say You're One of Them, Uwem Akpan
Jesuit priest and writer Uwem Akpan's collection of short stories is a beautiful, bitter, compelling read. The savagely strange juxtapositions in these stories are grounded by the loving relationships between brothers and sisters forced to survive in a world of dreamlike horror. Open the book at any page, as in divination, and a stunning sentence will leap out.
(Louise Erdrich) | | Jan. 7th | | | | Feb. 4th | | | | Mar. 4th | | | | Apr. 1st | | | | May 6th | | | A Brief History
Many 'Church' book clubs read theological classics and devotional books, but the Newman book club is different: we focus on fiction. Fr Doug got the idea while he was a student at UMass and heard Prof. Thomas Howard give a Newman Lecture entitled, "How to Speak of Glory: How Christian Authors get a Hearing in the Modern Age." Since then, Fr Doug has started Catholic Fiction Book Clubs at most of his assignments and many of them are still meeting.
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