Our newest online book discussion group for adults, Gather around a Book, will feature a different Humanities discipline - history, literature, philosophy, ethics, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, geography, the law or legal theory, classics, and cultural or religious studies -  each month.  We will "gather 'round" a shared book in a Zoom discussion facilitated by a humanities expert.  We will alternate monthly between fiction and non-fiction.

This month's selction is The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, a profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize.   Copies of the month's selection will be provided for all participants.

Our discussion facilitator will be Ann McClellan, professor of English and Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Plymouth State University where she teaches 19th and 20th century British literature. She is the author of How British Women Writers Transformed the Campus Novel (2012), Sherlock's World: Fanfiction and the Reimagining of BBC's Sherlock (2018), and several articles on cultural topics ranging from servants on screen to social media, fan fiction, and Sherlock Holmes. She is currently writing a new monograph on Black Sherlock Holmes adaptations.

This program is funded by a SHARP grant from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, through the American Rescue Plan.

(This grant funded program will meet monthly on the second Tuesday each month at 6:30 pm - through May 2022. )