LITERATURE FORUM
Monthly | 2:00pm | Houghton Room (unless otherwise noted) | No Charge
The mission of the Literature Forum is to present programs that encourage the reading and discussion of
outstanding, enduring literature. All forum meetings are led by volunteers and are open to the public.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT BY ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Remarque served in the German army during Word War I and created many works describing the terror of war.
This 1928 novel is his best known and depicts in horrifying detail how the exuberant patriotism of young
German soldiers disintegrates in the trenches of the Western Front. It is a classic portrayal of the cruelty and
senselessness of war. Presenters: Linda May and Jo Van Zoeren
Thursday, December 14, 2017
OLD SCHOOL BY TOBIAS WOLFF
The protagonist of Wolff’s shrewdly — and at times devastatingly — observed first
novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the
negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he desperately wants to become
a writer, but to accomplish that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. Presenter: Danni Ervin
Thursday, January 11, 2018
The Royal Palm Players will present a reading of
Horton Foote’s The Trip To Bountiful at 5:00pm in
the community center auditorium.
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
Thursday, February 8, 2018
THE NORTH WATER BY IAN MCGUIRE
This riveting and darkly brilliant 2016 novel by English author Ian McGuire tells the story of a 19th-century whaling
ship that set sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard. The two main characters, a disgraced drug-addicted surgeon
and a vicious, amoral crewmember, deal with unimaginable physical hardship in very different ways. There are
echoes of Joseph Conrad and Cormac McCarthy in this highly imaginative and engrossing talle.
Presenters: Jack Hall and David Jenkins
Thursday, March 8, 2018
DANCING AT THE RASCAL FAIR BY IVAN DOIG
The central volume in Doig’s ac