\ The Literary Society Schedule

The Literary Society Schedule

Date	Title	Author	Host	Next Book
May 3, 2010	Mystery Guest	Gregoire Bouillier	Christy	Ellen
April 5, 2010	Trout Fishing in America	Richard Brautigan	Charlie	Christy
Feb. 1, 2010	The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise	Michael Grunwald	Ellen	Charlie
Dec.7, 2009	This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women	Jay Allison, Dan Gediman	Ellen	Jim
Nov. 2, 2009	The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon	David Grann	Christy	Jackie
Oct. 5, 2009	Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	Charlie	Ellen
Sept. 7, 2009	Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration	Sam Quinones	Julia	Christy
August 3, 2009	Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	Jim	Charlie
July 6, 2009	Damned Lie and Statistics	Joel Best	Jackie	Julia
June 1, 2009	The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism	Naomi Klein	Christy	Jim
May 4, 2009	The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	Jackie	Jackie
April 6, 2009	Travels with Herodotus	Ryszard Kapuscinski	Christy	Ellen
March 2, 2009	The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead	David Shields	Charlie	Christy
Feb 2, 2009	Slapstick	Kurt Vonnegut	Christy	Charlie
Jan 12, 2009	Consider the lobster and other essays	David Foster Wallace	Jim	Julia
Dec. 1, 2008	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer	Jackie	Jim
Oct. 6, 2008	How to talk about books you haven't read	Pierre Bayard	Ellen (Julia)	Jackie
Sept 8, 2008	The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more	Chris Anderson	Charlie	Ellen
August 4, 2008	Leopard	Giuseppe Di Lampedusa	Julia	Dave
July 6, 2008	Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See	Robert Kurson	Christy	Charlie
June 2, 2008	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	Max Weber	Jim	Julia
May 5, 2008	I was Vermeer: the Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger	Frank Wynne	Jackie	Christy
April 14, 2008	Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai	Dave	Jim
Mar. 3, 2008	Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence	Geoff Dyer	Ellen	Jackie
February 4, 2008	Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution	Alma Guillermoprieto	Christy	Ellen
January 7, 2008	The Places In Between	Rory Stewart	Julia	Dave
Dec. 3, 2007	Social intelligence : the new science of human relationships	Daniel Goleman	Charlie	Christy
Nov. 5, 2007	Books about Savonarola	various	Jim	Charlie
Oct. 1, 2007	Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx	Adrian Nicole LeBlanc	Jackie	Julia
Sept. 10, 2007	Asiatics	Frederic Prokosch	Ellen (at Julia's)	Jim
Aug 6 , 2007	Absurdistan	Gary Shteyngart	Dave	Jackie
June 4, 2007	Omnivore's Dilemma	Michael Pollan	Christy	Ellen
May 7, 2007	War is a force that gives us meaning	Chris Hedges	Charlie	Dave
Apr. 9, 2007	Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China	John Pomfret	Julia	Christy
Mar. 5, 2007	Ruins and Rivals	James Snead	Jim	Charlie
Feb. 5, 2007	Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an african childhood	Alexandra Fuller	Jackie	Julia
Jan. 2, 2007	A Journal of the Plague Year	Daniel Defoe	Jack	Jim
Dec. 4, 2006	Perfect Mile	Neal Bascomb	Dave	Jackie
Nov. 6, 2006	Disgrace	John M. Coetzee	Ellen at Julia's house	Jack
Oct. 9, 2006	Intuition	Allegra Goodman	Christy	Dave
Sept. 4, 2006	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	Charlie	Ellen
August 7, 2006	Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection or Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World	John Man Jack Weatherford	Julia	Christy
July 10, 2006	Absalom, Absalom	William Faulkner	Jim	Charlie
June 5, 2006	Don't think of an elephant! : know your values and frame the debate : the essential guide for progressives	George Lakoff	Jackie	Julia
May 1, 2006	The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon	Jack	Jim
April 10, 2006	How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization	Franklin Foer	Dave	Jackie
Mar. 6, 2005	An End to Suffering : The Buddha in the World	Pankaj Mishra	Christy	Jack
Feb. 6, 2005	Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation	Jeff Chang	Charlie	Dave
Jan. 17, 2005	Bookseller of Kabul	Asne Seierstad	Julia	Christy
Dec. 5, 2005	Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	Jim	Charlie
Nov. 7, 2005	The Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Jackie	Julia
Oct. 10, 2005	The death and life of great American cities	Jane Jacobs	Jack	Jim
Sept. 12, 2005	Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream	H.G. Bissinger	Dave	Jackie
August 8, 2005	Fashionable Nonsense: postmodern intellectuals abuse of science	Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont	Charlie	Jack
July 11, 2005	The plot against America: A novel	Philip Roth	Christy	Dave
May 2, 2005	Faith, madness, and spontaneous combustion	Gerald N. Callahan	Julia	Christy
April 4, 2005	Alternatives to economic globalization	John Cavanaugh	Jim	Charlie
March 7, 2005	How we die : reflections on life's final chapter	Sherwin B. Nuland	Charlie	Julia
Feb. 7, 2005	The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron's "Nat Turner": Ten Black Writers Respond	William Styron John Henrik Clarke	Jack	Jim
Jan. 3, 2005	The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College	Jacques Steinberg	Dave	Jackie
Dec. 6, 2004	Blindness	Jose Saramago	Christy	Jack
Nov. 8, 2004	Much depends on dinner : the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos, of an ordinary meal	Margaret Visser	Jackie	Dave
Oct. 4, 2004	The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature	Steven Pinker	Julia	Christy
Sept. 6, 2004	Globalization and its discontents	Joseph E. Stiglitz	Jim	Charlie
August 2, 2004	Snow Leopard	Peter Matthiessen	Jack	Julia
June 14, 2004	Fire in the lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam	Frances FitzGerald	Jackie	Jim
May 3, 2004	The Stranger	Albert Camus	Dave	Jackie
April 5, 2004	Steppenwolf	Hermann Hesse	Christy	Jack
March 1, 2004	Darwin's Dangerous Idea: evolution and the meanings of life	Daniel C. Dennett	Charlie	Dave
Feb. 2, 2004	Laxdaela Saga	Author unknown	Jim	Christy
Jan. 5, 2004	Heisenberg's War	Thomas Powers	Julia	Charlie
Dec. 8, 2003	Walden	Henry David Thoreau	Jim	Jim
Nov. 3, 2003	An unexpected light : travels in Afghanistan	Jason Elliot	Jackie	Julia
Sept. 8, 2003	In cold blood	Truman Capote	Jack	Group
August 4, 2003	Media Arts AAA (readings on Cold War, Containment, etc.) Password is readaaa.	Kennan, Kissinger, Friedman, etc.	Dave	Jackie
July 7, 2003	You just don't understand : women and men in conversation	Deborah Tannen	Charlie	Jack
June 2, 2003	Prey: Novel	Michael Crichton	Christy	Dave
May 12, 2003	Civilization and It's Discontents Future of an Illusion	Sigmund Freud	Jim	Charlie
April 7, 2003	Animal Liberation	Peter Singer	Jackie	Christy
March 3, 2003	The tipping point : how little things can make a big difference	Malcolm Gladwell	Rebecca	Jim
Feb. 3, 2003	Dream of Scipio	Iain Pears	Charlie	Jackie
Dec. 9, 2002	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	Jim	Rebecca
Nov. 4, 2002	Anatomy of a miracle : the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa	Patti Waldmeir	Dave	Julia
Oct. 7, 2002	Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software	Stephen Johnson	Christy	Jack
Sept. 9, 2002	Why elephants have big ears : understanding patterns of life on earth	Chris Lavers	Jackie	Dave
August 12, 2002	Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America	Barbara Ehrenreich	Charlie	Charlie
July 8, 2002	Beyond good and evil : prelude to a philosophy of the future	Friedrich Nietzsche	Rebecca	Christy
June 3, 2002	The Beauty of the Beastly : New Views on the Nature of Life	Natalie Angier	Jack	None
May 6, 2002	The substance of civilization : materials and human history from the stone age to the age of silicon	Stephen Sass	Julia	Jim
April 8, 2002	Populuxe	Thomas Hine	Jackie	Jackie
March 4, 2002	A people's history of the United States (second half)	Howard Zinn	Jim	Julia
Feb. 4, 2002	A people's history of the United States (first half)	Howard Zinn	Christy	Jack
Jan. 7, 2002	The polar bear strategy : reflections on risk in modern life	John F. Ross	Rebecca	Jack
Dec. 3, 2001	Resurrection : the struggle for a new Russia	David Remnick	Dave	Rebecca
Nov. 5, 2001	Psychology of Everyday Things	Donald Norman	Julia	none
Oct. 1, 2001	The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America	Sally Denton, Roger Morris	Charlie	Dave
Sept. 10, 2001	Bible (Genesis, Deuteronomy 18-25, Jeremiah 23-52, Mark, Romans, ICorinthians, optional Exodus, Job, Revelations)	Lots of dead guys	Christy	Charlie
August 6, 2001	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	Amanda Foreman	Jim	Christy
July 2, 2001	The People of Nowhere: The Palestinian Vision of Home	Danny Rubinstein	Dave's	Jim
June 11, 2001	The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years	Bernard Lewis	Jim's	Julia
May 7, 2001	Making Movies	Sidney Lumet	Dave	Jack
April 1, 2001	Life the Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality	Neal Gabler	Julia	Jack
Feb. 25, 2001	Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics	Rebecca Goldstein	Jack	Dave
Feb. 4, 2001	Woman: An Intimate Geography	Natalie Angier	Charlie	None
Jan. 8, 2001	Cadillac Desert	Marc Reisner	Julia	Charlie
Dec. 4, 2000	West with the night	Beryl Markham	Christy	None
Nov. 6, 2000	The Structure of scientific revolutions	Thomas Kuhn	Charlie	Christy
Oct. 2, 2000	Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies	Jared Diamond	Julia	None
Sept. 4, 2000	A history of private life	Philippe Aries and Georges Duby	Christy	Jackie
August 7, 2000	If on a winter's night a traveler	Italo Calvino	Mark	Jim
July 1, 2000	King Leopold's Ghost	Adam Hochschild	Jack	Julia
June 12, 2000	The Nudist on the Late Shift	Po Bronson	Jackie	Jack
May 1, 2000	Sexual Brain The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat	Simon Levay Oliver Sacks	Charlie	Dave
April 3, 2000	End of Nature	Bill McKibben	Charlie	Charlie
March 6, 2000	Good to eat :riddles of food and culture	Marvin Harris	Christy	Christy
Feb. 7, 2000	Don Quixote	Cervantes	Julia	Jackie
Dec. 6, 1999	Mara and Dann: an adventure	Doris Lessing	Christy	Mark
Nov. 1, 1999	The History of Reading	Alberto Manguel	Charlie	Jim
Oct. 4, 1999	The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century	Robert D. Kaplan	Christy	Julia
August 31, 1999	Reality isn't what it used to be: theatrical politics, ready- to-wear religion, global myths, primitive chic, and other wonders of the postmodern world	Walter Truett Anderson	Jackie	Jack
August 2, 1999	The Great Human Diasporas : The History of Diversity and Evolution	Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza	Jack	Dave
July 7, 1999	Lives of a Cell	Lewis Thomas	Julia	Charlie
June 3, 1999	Days of Obligation : An Argument With My Mexican Father Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez	Richard Rodriguez	Mark	Christy
May 3, 1999	Time's Arrow	Martin Amis	Christy	Jackie
April 5, 1999	Mezzanine Bridget Jones's Diary	Nicolson Baker Helen Fielding	Charlie	Mark
March 1, 1999	Civil Action	Jonathan Haar	Jackie	Jim
Feb. 1, 1999	Assembling California	John McPhee	Julia	Chas/Chris
Jan. 4, 1999	No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo	Redmond O'Hanlon	Christy	Julia
Dec. 7, 1998	Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder	Charlie	Jack
Nov. 9, 1998	The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way	Bill Bryson	Julia	Dave