• Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer

    Virtual

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer.

    Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
  • Toni Morrison Day

    Details are forthcoming. View the 2022 program.

  • Questlove’s Music Is History

    Virtual

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Questlove’s Music Is History.

    Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
  • Dinty W. Moore

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    Dinty W. Moore is a celebrated American essayist and a pioneering, early practitioner of creative nonfiction. He received the Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire, in 2008 and, more recently, is also the author of the memoir To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno, the writing guides The Story Cure, Crafting the Personal Essay, and The Mindful Writer, and many other books and edited anthologies.

    Free and open to the public
  • Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country

    Virtual

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country.

    Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
  • Bilingual Poetry Reading and Q&A with Salgado Maranhão and Alexis Levitin

    Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)

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  • T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

    Virtual

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

    Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
  • Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Virtual

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land.

    Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
  • J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye

    Virtual

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack. This month’s novel is J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

    Free and open to the public but registration is required.
  • Benjamin Nugent

    Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)

    Benjamin Nugent is the author of Fraternity: Stories (FSG, 2020). He was awarded The Paris Review’s 2019 Terry Southern Prize for his fiction, which has been published in The Best American Short Stories and other anthologies. He’s written for Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is currently Director of the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA at Southern New Hampshire University.

    Free and open to the public