Reading the Western Landscape Community Book Discussion
Schedule
Wed Aug 28 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden | Arcadia, CA
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999, to be discussed Wednesday, August 28, 2024. 1999ISBN: 0684854961
The Book Group explores the portrayal of western North American landscape in fiction, non-fiction, letters, drama, graphic novels, poetry, etc. The group uses a modified version of the Shared Inquiry™ method developed by the Great Books Foundation. The chosen book of the month must be read in order to actively participate, although participants who only want to listen are welcome. Let the host know. New participants are welcome. When the weather is good and disease rates are low, the group meets outside in appropriate places in the gloriously, beautiful grounds of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden with appropriate social distancing and masking if you chose to. Currently the group is meeting In Person at the Arboretum or, very rarely, on Zoom. Be sure to check for In Person dates and Zoom dates.
New members are always welcome! For more information about the Book Group, please contact, Arboretum Librarian, Susan Eubank, at 626-821-3213 or [email protected]. Please RSVP to Susan if you plan to attend.
ABOUT THIS MONTH'S SELECTION:
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999, to be discussed Wednesday, August 28, 2024. 1999
ISBN: 0684854961
“...Better to view him here, I think, as a memoirist -- and more just, the majority of the book is devoted more to his history and to that of his grandparents, first-generation Texas pioneers, than to the bricks and mortar of analysis. ...McMurtry's thin book glitters: His recollections of Texas ranch life -- of cowpokes puzzling over why a local farmer milked his cows before committing suicide, of his own ineptitude as a cowboy, of his childhood fears of poultry and shrubs and, most of all, of his early forays into reading -- are gorgeously drawn and rife with the sort of nimbly vigilant details that have long elevated (and occasionally salvaged) his novels. —Jonathan Miles, Salon
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a memoir of his odyssey from rancher's son to critically acclaimed novelist, in a reminiscence set against the backdrop of the Lone Star State.
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Where is it happening?
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Historic Los Angeles Arboretum Tour, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States,Arcadia, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
