The library meetings return to analyze and debate stories from North American literature with Maria Willstedt as a facilitator.
Our virtual meeting in June will be dedicated to the analysis of “By degrees and dilatory time” by SL Huang, an award-winning writer who studied mathematics at MIT before dedicating herself to writing and working in Hollywood. In this story, she takes us to another world where we question our relationship with new technological advances.
Our virtual meeting in May will be dedicated to the analysis of "Hills like white elephants" by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). In this month's story, we'll explore aspects of style, symbolism, and themes in a short work by this American literature teacher.
Our virtual meeting in March, which is the month of women, will be dedicated to the analysis of "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel. The story deals with issues about the expectations of women in society, pain and recovery, among others.
Our first virtual meeting of 2021 will be dedicated to the analysis of two short works: “Niña” (“Girl”) by Jamaica Kincaid and a passage from the book “Between the world and me” (“Between the world and me”) by Ta- Nehisi Coates.
This virtual meeting will be dedicated to the analysis of “A Temporal Anomaly [A Temporary Measure]” by Jhumpa Lahiri, the first story in The Interpreter of Pain, the book of short stories that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. #ReadWithASM
This virtual meeting will be dedicated to the analysis of "Blood Daughters" by Octavia Butler, one of the first black science fiction writers in the US and a pioneer of Afrofuturism. #ReadWithASM
Reading and critical thinking club so you can continue enjoying American literature from home. In the next virtual session we will talk about "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff. #ReadWithASM
Reading and critical thinking club so you can continue enjoying American literature from home. In the next virtual session we will talk about "Shut a Final Door" by Truman Capote. #ReadWithASM
Reading and critical thinking club so you can continue enjoying American literature from home. This virtual meeting will be dedicated to the analysis and debate of the story "All That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor, a teacher of Southern Gothic literature. #ReadWithASM