NEIGHBORHOOD NON-FICTION BOOK GROUP
With a focus on minority authors, Allison + Sadie lead this non-fiction book group for curious minds looking to explore diverse topics. A $5 fee confirms your RSVP and covers light refreshments.
- PLEASE NOTE -
We are taking a hiatus following the Monday October 14 meeting. Please stay in touch via email and sign up for our newsletter to stay in the know. We welcome feedback regarding the book group conceptually: any notes on location, times, titles, etcetera would be valuable to us! We hope to reconnect with you in 2020.
- DETAILS -
- BOOK SELECTIONS -
2019
MAY 15 - Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Erica Wagner (Biography | NYC History)
JUNE 12 - The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú (Memoir | Immigration)
JULY 10 - Hunger: a Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (Memoir | Body Image)
AUG 14 - The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams (Essays | Nature)
SEP 11 - Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (Autobiography | True Crime, Poverty)
OCT 14 (Monday)* - Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward (Memoir | Racial Discrimination)
*Meeting held at Think Coffee: 123 4th Ave, Manhattan
NOV 13 - The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail (Narrative Nonfiction | Iraq War)
DEC 11 - The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Tsing (Creative Nonfiction | Ecology, Anthropology, Capitalism)
2020
JAN 8 - Swallow the Fish by Gabrielle Civil (Memoir | Race, Gender, Art)
FEB 12 - Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes (Memoir | Native American Experience)
MAR 11 - The Grim Sleeper: The Women of South Central by Christine Pelisek (Narrative Nonfiction | True Crime, Sex Work)
APR 8 - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Narrative Nonfiction | US History, African American Migration)
- RSVP -
Venmo $5 fee to @Allison-Grillo with "book group" in the description to confirm attendance.
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- SUPPORT LOCAL -
Mention Neighborhood Non-Fiction Book Group for a 15% discount from Fort Greene Greenlight Bookstore (current selection only).
- QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGEST A BOOK -