City of Austin - MBC04: Discussions and Events

Mayor's Book Club '03, Keep Austin Reading

Book cover for All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Discussions and Events

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses is the third annual selection of the "Mayor's Book Club—Keep Austin Reading Campaign," a city-wide initiative designed to broaden and deepen an appreciation of literature through reading and discussion.

The Austin Public Library partners with The University of Texas Humanities Institute to provide free programs and discussion groups beginning in August and September at local branch libraries.

In addition to the diversity of the group participants, part of what makes the Mayor's Book Club discussions so exciting is that each leader is an accomplished UT faculty member who approaches the book from a different angle of interest and expertise.

Discussion Group Schedule:

Wednesday, August 18 7 p.m.	Austin History Center 810 Guadalupe
Discussion Lead: Dr. Leslie Jarmon is a specialist in cross-cultural communication and was the former regional director of the United States Peace Corps for Latin America.
Thursday, August 19 7 p.m.	Ruiz Branch 1600 Grove Blvd.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Evan Carton is a professor of American literature and director of the UT Humanities Institute.
Monday, August 23 7 p.m.	Hampton Branch at Oak Hill 5125 Convict Hill Rd.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Domino Perez specializes in Chicano/a literature, gender studies, and contemporary American literature and film.
Wednesday, August 25 7 p.m.	Pleasant Hill Branch 211 E. William Cannon Dr.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Don Graham, a specialist in the literature of Texas and the Southwest, is a frequent Texas Monthly contributor and past president of the Texas Institute of Letters.
Tuesday, August 31 7 p.m.	Windsor Park Branch 5833 Westminster Dr.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Evan Carton is a professor of American literature and director of the UT Humanities Institute.
Tuesday, September 7 7 p.m.	Yarborough Branch 2200 Hancock Dr.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Steven Hoelscher is a cultural geographer specializing in the political geography of ethnicity and race and the cultural politics of travel and tourism.
Sunday, September 12 2:30 p.m.	Little Walnut Creek Branch 835 W. Rundberg Ln.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Stacey Peebles specializes in the writing of Cormac McCarthy and the imagination of violence in modern American literature.
Tuesday, September 14 7 p.m.	Milwood Branch 12500 Amherst Dr.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Martin Kevorkian specializes in the American novel and in contemporary film and visual culture.
Thursday, September 16 7 p.m.	Old Quarry Branch 7051 Village Center Dr.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Richard Flores is an anthropologist who specializes in Mexican American culture and the history and symbolism of the Alamo.
Monday, September 20 7 p.m.	North Village Branch 2139 W. Anderson Ln.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Wayne Lesser directs UT's English graduate program and is a specialist in American literature and literary criticism.
Wednesday, September 22 7 p.m.	Manchaca Road Branch 5500 Manchaca Rd.
Discussion Lead: Dr. Neil Foley is a historian of the southwest, specializing in ethnic and labor history, and the editor of Reflexiones: New Directions in Mexican American Studies.
Wednesday, September 29 7 p.m.	Howson Branch 2500 Exposition
Discussion Lead: Dr. Jose Limon directs UT's Center for Mexican American Studies and is the author of American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture.

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