Let's Talk About It: Fall 2008
Today is 7/3/2009
“Significant Others: Gender, Creativity and Partnership"
Let's Talk About It book discussion group meets once a month to discuss a work chosen from the semester's theme and to learn more about the author.
Copies of the books are available for loan from the library's Information Desk. To sign up for this series, call (515) 239-5656 or visit the Information Desk.
Tuesday, January 20 at 7pm Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote Truman Capote and Harper Lee grew up together in Monroeville, Alabama and were united by their shared love of the written word, their refusal to adopt traditional gender roles, and their sympathy for those who were viewed as outsiders. Capote modeled the character of Idabell Thompkins in Other Voices, Other Rooms on that of Lee as a child. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee’s depiction of Scout’s friend Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by her memories of Capote. For the dust jacket of the first edition, Capote wrote “someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life, and the warmest, most authentic sense of humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable.”
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Tuesday, March 17 at 7pm Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald When Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save me the Waltz was published, Scott was furious that she had used material from their life together, though he had done the same. He forced Zelda to revise the novel and to remove the parts which drew on shared material he wished to use.
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Tuesday, April 21 at 7pm Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night is at least in part a description of Zelda’s descent into schizophrenia. In the characters of Dick and Nicole Diver, Fitzgerald offers us the story of a man of almost limitless potential who makes the fatal decision to marry a beautiful but mentally ill woman and ultimately sinks into despair and alcoholism. |
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