Summer vacation has always been a great time to read or watch movies and brush up on that to-do list we all have. Recommendations are a good way to guide our choices and often the best way to discover authors and works. With this in mind, we present the suggestions of the
We hope you have enjoyed the stories for this month “Oliver's Vegetables” & “Oliver's Fruit Salad” by Vivian French… and also your homemade carrot cake.
This month's story, and our last of the 2016-2017 cycle, is John Cheever's “the Swimmer.” First published in The New Yorker in 1964, this is perhaps Cheever's most popular and heavily anthologized story, and it serves as a fitting close to our cycle. Perhaps Neddy Merrill's journey across the swimming pools of his suburban neighborhood
Erin Brockovich tells the story of a poor single mother who finds a job as a paralegal in a law office. There, she discovers some medical information included in a mortgage transaction in the town of Hinkley, two hundred kilometers north of Los Angeles, and decides to investigate. She finds an entire town—more than six hundred
The last story of our 2016-2017 cycle is James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues,” written in 1957. This story is Baldwin's most heavily anthologized, and stands as a powerful testament to the author's virtuosity as a short-story writer, in addition to his mastery of other forms, most notably the novel, drama, and the essay. “Sonny's Blues” addresses
We hope you have enjoyed the story for this month “The Cow in Patrick O'shanahan's Kitchen” by Diana Prichard and “Lidia's Egg-citing Farm Adventure” by Lidia Bastianich… and also your homemade mac and cheese. See you next session!
Recipe by Nanor Rose Demirjian. Comments : This recipe is really fun and easy to make and it needs apples! We hope you have enjoyed the story for this month “To Market, To Market” by Nikki McClure… and also your homemade apple bread pudding. See you next session! — Family Book Club: American Family Food Stories The Family
Poetry is the maximum expression of the value of the word as a literary genre and as a library that works with the printed word we like to be linked to it. For some years it has been an important part of the cultural programming of the library and, by extension, of the Institute. In addition to the poetry recitals that have
This month's story is John Steinbeck's “The Snake”, written in 1934 and published the year after. It forms part of The Long Valley collection, which was published in 1938. The story is set in Monterey, California, and features a character, Dr. Phillips, that is based on the marine biologist and philosopher Ed Ricketts, a friend
The film "Dallas Buyers Club" deals with the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the United States through the story of Ron Woodroof. It is based on the true story of what happened in Dallas, Texas in 1985 when Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, is diagnosed with HIV and told