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DISCUSSION GROUP

July 13, 1 p.m. 


Superman: Red Son by
Mark Millar

Discussion leader:
Jeff Suess  

 

THERE WILL BE NO GRAPHIC NOVEL DISCUSSION IN JUNE

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This Week

Ten years ago this week, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Joan Hedrick delivered the first Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture.  The subject?  Harriet Beecher Stowe.  The Lecture on Stowe's birthday accompanied the installation of the great hellraiser's portrait bust in the reading room.  Stowe Lecturers since then have gone on to become ambassador to the U. N., a bestselling author, and a MacArthur Fellow.  Dr. Robert Bullard, who is squarely in the Stowe tradition, will deliver the 2013 Lecture.  This is your last chance to reserve a seat.

New to the Collection

Urbanophiles of the Midwest, Unite! over new arrivals at the Merc: The remake of Red Dawn, Lions fans, and urban farmers converge in Mark Binelli's Detroit City is the Place to Be.  Novelist and historian Thomas Dyja gives us Third Cost, a readable, richly detailed history of the city that brought the world Playboy, Al Capone, Chess Records and "da Bears." 

 

According to the WSJ's Sam Sacks: "stylistic panache, technical daring, moral weight and an uncanny sense of the current moment combine" in the 2013 Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson, an ingenious tale of North Korean intrigue.   

 

 

2012 National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, a novel of the Iraq War, is in- a short powerful read.  But if you're looking for something less serious, you might try Dave Barry's dark, comic Insane City.

 

 

 

 

Speaking of Pulitzers, remember Olive Kitteridge?  Strout's newest, The Burgess Boys, depicts rocky marriages in the rocky state of Maine, and Susan Burgess bears a not unpassing resemblance to the Olive of yore.  Solid, poolside, martini-sipping material.     

HBS2013 Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture
Writing to Change The World
Robert D. Bullard
Tuesday, June 11
7 p.m. Reception
8 p.m. Lecture
$20 members
$25 nonmembers

Robert Bullard is the Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas.  He is often described as the father of the environmental justice movement. His book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Equality (2000), is a standard text in the environmental justice field.
 
Sponsors: 
 Charlie & Christine Schiff 
Paul DeMarco & Karen Smith 
 
Reserve by phone (513.621.0717), online, or via email
BtBBy The Book 
Willie Carden
Wednesday, July 10 
Noon
$10 per members:
$15 for others.
Price includes lunch


Our popular By The Book series returns with another outstanding local leader, Willie Carden, Director of the City of Cincinnati's parks system, reflecting on books that have informed, inspired, and influenced his life and career.  

 

 
Sponsors: 
RiverPoint Capital Management
Media Sponsor:
The Business Courier 
 
Reserve by phone (513.621.0717), online, or via email
DiscussionUpcoming Discussion Groups
Tales of Genius 
Architectural Foundation Executive Director Kit Anderson will lead the discussion of four books featuring fascinating personalities and fabulous architecture.
June 18: Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan
July 2: The Perfect House by Witold Rybczynski
July 16: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
July 30: Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
Discussions held from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Series price: $30 members, $40 others
Individual sessions: $10 members, $15 others 

The American Mayor 
Moderated by Brendon Cull, Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs at The Kroger Co. and Mercantile trustee.
July 17: A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger
August 21: Boss! by Mike Royco
September 18: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler 
October 16: The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton 
Discussions held from Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Series price: $30 members, $40 others
Individual sessions: $10 members, $15 others 

Group size is limited.  Reservations requested.
513.621.0717

2013 Mercantile Library discussion groups are supported by the Camden Foundation.
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