Book Club

CATHER CENTER BOOK CLUB

The 2007-2008 Cather Center Book Club will take a new turn in keeping with the planned 2008 Willa Cather Spring Conference theme, “Cather and her Contemporaries,” scheduled for June 5-7, 2008. The group will be combining selections from Cather’s works and selections from THE BIG READ, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.*

The Book Club will be led by Cather Foundation Education Director Cindy Bruneteau and Executive Director Betty Kort. We’ll meet in the GALLERY of the Cather Center at 4:30 p.m., usually on the second Wednesday of each month. Please join us!

WHO: Anyone interested in reading great books

WHAT: Cather Book Club

WHEN: Once a month—see schedule below

WHERE: Cather Foundation, 413 North Webster, Red Cloud, 68970

WHY: Because Red Cloud hosts the largest living memorial to an author in the country, and because Willa Cather is one of America’s foremost authors, inspiring generations of writers to come.

SCHEDULE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007: “A Wagner Matinee,” Willa Cather

OCTOBER 10, 2007: Old Jules, Mari Sandoz, with special guest speaker Kira Gale

NOVEMBER 28, 2007: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

DECEMBER 2007: Break

JANUARY 9, 2008: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

FEBRUARY 13, 2008: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

MARCH 12, 2008: A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

APRIL 9, 2008: One of Ours, Willa Cather

*THE BIG READ is an “initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. It is designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture.” Communities across the country are invited to choose books on the BIG READ list. You can learn more about THE BIG READ by visiting www.neabigread.org.