Schedule of Events in April
All programs are free and open to the public.
Click HERE for a list of discussion questions.
Sunday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Association of Austin,
7300 Hart Lane.
Co-Sponsored by Congregation Agudas Achim.
An evening of musical entertainment and literary discussion.
Book discussion led by Dr. Elisheva Rosman. Dr. Rosman is an Israeli scholar and a visiting professor at UT’s Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies whose areas of expertise include the study of religious Zionism and relations between the Gulf States and Israel.
Monday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse South,
1120 South Lamar, Austin, TX 78704
Film Screening of Persepolis— Based on an autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud wrote and directed this coming of age story about a young Iranian girl growing up during and after the Iranian Revolution. In this Academy Award Nominated animated movie, Satrapi recounts her childhood and exodus from Iran that provides a revealing and intimate look into Iranian society and culture.
Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Pleasant Hill Branch,
211 E. William Cannon Dr., Austin, TX 78745
Book Club discussion led by Dr. Evan Carton. Dr. Carton is director of the UT Humanities Institute and a professor of 19th and 20th century American literature. He has also written on issues of Jewish identity after the Holocaust.
Monday, April 20, at 7:00 p.m.
Spicewood Springs Branch,
8637 Spicewood Springs Rd., Austin, TX 78759
Book discussion led by Dr. Mohammed Ghanoonparvar. Dr. Ghanoonparvar is a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a specialist in 20th century Persian literature and culture and in Iranian emigrant communities in the U.S.
Thursday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m.
City Hall,
301 W. 2nd St., Austin, TX 78701
Mayor Proclamation of Author, Dali Sofer
Author introduced to City Council in Council Chambers with City Proclamation
Author appearance CANCELLED
Friday, April 24 at 6:30p.m. - MEET THE AUTHOR
City Hall Atrium and Council Chambers
301 W. 2nd St., 78701
- 6:30 p.m. Author Reception with live music, refreshments, and book signing
- 7:30 p.m. A conversation and Q & A with author Dalia Sofer, hosted and moderated by Dr. Karen Grumberg, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Grumberg specializes in contemporary Jewish literatures in Israel, Europe, and the U. S., in literature by women, and in the theme of exile in Israeli and Jewish literature.
Visit our previous Mayor's Book Club resource guides online:
2008: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
2007: Around The Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
2006: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
2005: Writing Austin's Lives by Metro Austin Residents
2004: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
2003: Holes by Louis Sachar
2002: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
To view what other cities across the country are reading visit
The Center for the Book
