Meta Book Club

Summary

This book club meets every 4-8 weeks in a MetaChat thread to talk about the current book. The book club is currently tracking the Open Yale Course on The American Novel Since 1945. Here is the syllabus. Aren't you glad we aren't responsible for writing any papers or taking a final exam?

The way this works is that you read the current book, read or watch or listen to the associated lecture by Professor Amy Hungerford or her guest lecturer, then join the MetaChat thread about the book.

Current Book and Discussion Date

We're currently reading J.D. Salinger's Frannie and Zooey, then reviewing Professor Hungerford's lecture on the book. The MetaChat discussion will take place on 10/18/10. On 10/25/2010, in a MetaChat thread posted that day, we will discuss which book in the syllabus to read next.

Past Books & Discussions

• 09 March 2010: On Richard Wright's Black Boy [1]
• 21 April 2010: On Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood [2]
• 15 June 2010: On Vladmir Nabakov's Lolita [3]
• 16 August 2010: On Jack Kerouac's On the Road [4]

History of the Book Club

This book club was started by Shothotbot [5], and continued by bearwife [6]. Please contact bearwife via memail at MetaFilter with any questions or concerns. Also, if you'd like to be emailed a reminder about upcoming book club discussions, please provide your email to bearwife. If you'd prefer to jump ahead to another book in the syllabus, feel free to raise that in a discussion thread here in MeCha. If there is a dispute, majority vote wins. Until we finish the current syllabus of the Open Yale course, however, book club choices will be drawn from it. After that, it would be great to choose other books to discuss.