The Banned Book Club "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Schedule
Tue Apr 22 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Bookstore1Sarasota | Sarasota, FL
About this Event
The Banned Book Club is led by Bryn Durgin. It is dedicated to reading and protecting the most important and threatened books for our generation. April’s pick is is The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The book has been challenged because of profanity three times. Read more here: .
We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $19, which includes a copy of The Things They Carried to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting.
About the book:
The Things They Carried is a classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene. It depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.
The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Tim O’Brien received the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing.
About Book Bans:
Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and remain an issue of concern to us at Bookstore1Sarasota. Over the past years, the scope of such censorship has expanded rapidly. In response, PEN America has collated an Index of School Book Bans, offering a snapshot of the trend. The index provides a comprehensive list of books banned in the first half of the 2022-2023 school year. Check it out and join us in our efforts to protect free expression and students' first amendment rights. You can view the index here: https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/.
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Where is it happening?
Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 20.33
