Wordsprouts: The Park Slope Food Coop Reading Series

Come join us for our next WordSprouts event in partnership with the Old Stone House, featuring novelist David Forbes, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus in the Urban Education Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center.

David will read from his newly published novel, Broken Land Dreams (Brooklyn Codgers-Amazon KDP, January 19, 2026). Following the reading, David will be in discussion with attendees and be available for Q&A.

David Forbes is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Urban Education Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He taught School Counseling in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY for nineteen years. He studied psychology and counseling at the University of Chicago, the New School, and University of California, Berkeley. David teaches and writes on critical and integral approaches to mindfulness within neoliberal society and education and has consulted with the New York City Public Schools on developing social mindfulness programs. He wrote Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation(2019), Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (2004), and False Fixes: The Cultural Politics of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Relations (1994). He and Ron Purser co-edited the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement (2016).

David's favorite Coop item is Aged Gouda. David says, “especially when it's cut with just two sides of the rind-ahh.”

David has been a Coop member since the early 1980's. Now retired, he recalls his favorite workshift, “I best liked being down in the basement, bagging raisins, nuts et al. We got to play our own CD's - remember them?” David played mandolin with a bluegrass group at a Coop event back in the 80's. David imagines, “My yet to be designed PSFC tee shirt: Shifts happen.”

David’s presentation will be followed by drinks and snacks, courtesy of the Coop. David will be available to sign copies of Broken Land Dreams, and he will have copies available to sell. The book can be ordered from any bookstore (distributed by IngramSparks), and online booksellers including amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and strandbooks.com.

WordSprouts Mission Statement: to showcase local published writers who are members of the Coop and cultivate friendships between Coop members and our larger community.

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The WordSprouts committee includes committee leader Sarah Schenck and committee members Peter Brosius, Susan Horwich, Ruthie Nachmany, Tamar Nachmany, and Rosanna Staffa.

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