Full Series: Reading With Purpose Book Group

Code: SL99901

Dates: November 2 - December 7, 2022

Meets: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sessions: 3

Location: Creutzburg Center

Course Fee: $79.00

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During the past several years, there has been a steady increase in the number of books being banned by schools and libraries in different regions of the U.S. What themes do these books have in common? What is accomplished by preventing access to certain titles? Booksellers, teachers, librarians and advocacy groups agree that blanket bans are not an appropriate response to topics that some find controversial. Indeed, after a book has been banned, the demand for it seems to grow. This spring we'll read three such books and discuss the conflict between censorship and intellectual freedom. Classes included in the series: "Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks-3/1 "The 1619 Project" by Nikole Hannah-Jones-3/29 "This Book is Gay" by Juno Dawson-5/3
Fee: $79.00
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Eileen Brill

Eileen Brill has a degree in Economics from Carnegie Mellon and spent twelve years in the corporate world writing trend reports for hotels, restaurants and real estate developers. Her debut novel, A Letter in the Wall, was released in May 2022. Eileen is also an artist and sign language interpreter. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband Eli.

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Alan Drew

Alan Drew is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, The Recruit, Shadow Man, and Gardens of Water. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. An associate professor of English at Villanova University, he lives near Philadelphia with his wife and two children.

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Ru Freeman

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American writer, poet, and activist whose work appears internationally in English and in translation. She is the author of the forthcoming short-story collection, Sleeping Alone (Graywolf, 2022), and the essay collection, Bon Courage (Etruscan, 2023) and the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), a New York Times Editor's Choice Book. She is the editor of the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine (2015) and co-editor of Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security (2018). She writes for the UK Guardian, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe and blogs for the Huffington Post on literature and politics. She is a winner of the Mariella Gable Award for Fiction, and the JH Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad, and is the Director of the Artists Network at Narrative 4.

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Ellen Trachtenberg

Ellen Trachtenberg is the owner of the Narberth Bookshop, which she opened in 2016 after more than 25 years of book industry experience. Prior to opening the bookshop, Ellen served as a book publicist and publishing consultant.

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