English Reading Circle on short stories – Readings for November

Activity to learn more about North American literature through the short story genre. Participate by reading the selected short stories and attending the colloquium (usually the last Tuesday of the month at 2:30 p.m.) directed by IIE professor Tracy Wood.

Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es

All stories from the series “Best American Short Stories” 2008 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin and with Salman Ruhsdie as editor. Find them also at the library.

Readings of the month:

“Man and Wife” by Katie Chase & “Virgins” by Danielle Evans

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 2:30 p.m.

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Recommended links:

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/missouri_review/v030/30.2chase.html

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/katie-chase/

http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5791

http://www.american.edu/cas/literature/in-capital-letters/2009-interview-evans.cfm

English Reading Circle on short stories – Readings for October

Activity to learn more about North American literature through the short story genre. Participate by reading the selected short stories and attending the colloquium (usually the last Tuesday of the month at 2:30 p.m.) directed by IIE professor Tracy Wood.

Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es

All stories from the series “Best American Short Stories” 2008 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin and with Salman Ruhsdie as editor. Find them also at the library.

Readings of the month:

“May We Be Forgiven” by A.M. Homes and “Bible” by Tobias Wolff

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 2:30 p.m.

Recommended links:

http://www.amhomesbooks.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._M._Homes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Wolff

http://www.salon.com/dec96/interview961216.html

New English Reading Circle on Short Stories

New activity (from September to June) to learn more about North American literature through the short story genre. Participate by reading the selected short stories and attending the colloquium (usually the last Tuesday of the month at 2:30) directed by IIE professor Tracy Wood.

Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.

Stories from the series “Best American Short Stories” 2008 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin and with Salman Ruhsdie as editor . Find them also in the library ready to be printed.

Readings of the month:

“Admiral” by T.C. Boyle and “Puppy” by George Saunders

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, September 29th, 14:30 p.m.

Recommended links:

http://www.tcboyle.com/

http://www.georgesaundersland.com/

English Reading Circle – Book of the month for June

Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover that words are better read in a circle!

Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.

Book of the month: “The History of Love: A Novel” by Nicole Krauss

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, June 30th, 19:30 p.m.

“A lost book reappears, drawing together the lives of the irrepressible Leo Gursky who has arrived at the end of his life, a locksmith searching for the son who’s never known him, and young Alma Singer, desperate to find her namesake and a cure for her mother’s loneliness. Gradually their stories merge into a single triumph of the imagination over loss.”

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring06/032862.htm

Recommended links:

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/11916/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5056902

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/may/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview19

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Love

English Reading Circle – Book of the month for May

Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover that words are better read in a circle!

Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.

Book of the month: “Selected Stories” by Alice Munro

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, May 26th, 19:30 p.m.

“Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness that change those lives forever. To read these stories–about a travelling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude–is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.”

Extraído de Random House.

Recommended links:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/munro.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_Stories_(Alice_Munro_book)

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D29L044112635689

Selected stories for the colloquium:

Walker Brothers Cowboy / Dance of the Happy Shades / Postcard / Images / Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You / Royal Beatings / Wild Swans / The Beggar Maid / The Progress of Love / Lichen / Fits / Friend of my Youth /Differently /Carried Away

English Reading Circle – Book of the month for April

Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover that words are better read in a circle!

Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.

Book of the month: “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, April 21st, 19:30 p.m

(Exceptionally not on the last week of the month)

“Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia—arrive in New York City in 1960 to find life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family that they left behind. What they have lost—and what they find—is revealed in fifteen interconnected stories that begin with thirty-nine-year-old Yolanda’s return to the Island and moves backwards in time to the final days before their exile. This story of the immigrant experience evokes the tensions and joys of belonging to two different distinct cultures.”

From Penguin publisher website.

Recommended links:

www.enotes.com/garcia-girls

www.juliaalvarez.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Garc%C3%ADa_Girls_Lost_Their_Accents

Próximos seminarios sobre Guerra Civil y República con la participación de Soledad Fox

La profesora e investigadora Soledad Fox, que actualmente modera los dos clubs de lectura de la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional, participará en dos seminarios sobre la Guerra Civil y la República:

“70 Años del fin de la Guerra Civil: Un balance histórico”

11:30 am – Presentación por el Sr. Rector y el Sr. Decano

 11:45 am – Angel Viñas: “Los significados de la Guerra Civil”

 1:00 pm – Julio Aróstegui: “Protagonistas de la Guerra Civil”

 4:00 pm – Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart: “La mujer en la Guerra Civil”

 5:00 pm – Antonio Elorza: “El mito de la sovietización de la República”

 6:00 pm – Soledad Fox: “Miradas opuestas: la Casa Blanca y la opinión pública norteamericana ante la Guerra de España”

Fecha: 17 de Marzo

Ubicación: Salón polivalente de la Facultad de Políticas

Organizado por: Departamento de Ciencia Política y de la Administración III de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

“Seminario sobre la República Española”

- Julián Casanova: “Historia y memoria de la República y la Guerra Civil”

- Soledad Fox: “La defensa de la República en los Estados Unidos”

Fecha: 2 de abril a las 12 h.

Ubicación: Sala Menéndez Pidal (0E18) del Instituto de Historia. Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC C/ Albasanz 26-28, 28037 (Madrid)

English Reading Circle – Book of the month for March

Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover that words are better read in a circle!

Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.

Book of the month: “Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language” by Eva Hoffman

COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, March 31th, 19:30 p.m

“Hoffman’s story sounds like a typical tale of immigrant success. In the telling, however, it is richer and more ambiguous than a summary suggests. The first section of the narrative, “Paradise,” centers on her childhood and adolescence in Cracow. “Exile” describes the voyage to Canada and her years in Vancouver, while “The New World” recounts the long process of her assimilation as an American and her discovery that she is finally at home in the English language.”

http://www.enotes.com/lost-translation-eva-hoffman-salem/lost-translation

Recommended links:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_199809/ai_n8818598

http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/+10340

http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum157.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Hoffman

English Reading Circle – Book of the month for February

Book of the month: “The bell jar” by Sylvia Plath

COLLOQUIUM:  Tuesday, February 24th, 19:30 p.m.

Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover that words are better read in a circle!

Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.

Bell jar first edition

Esther, an A-student from Boston who has won a guest editorship on a national magazine, finds a bewildering new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so that the choice of future is overwhelming, but she can no longer retreat into the safety of her past.

In this compelling autobiographical novel, a milestone in contemporary literature, Sylvia Plath chronicles her teenage years – her disappointments, anger, depression and eventual breakdown and treatment – with stunning wit and devastating honesty.

From: http://www.sylviaplath.de/plath/belljar.html

Recommended links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/bj

http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=2150

Library English Reading Circle – Book of the month for January

Book of the month: “THE END OF THE AFFAIR” BY GRAHAM GREENE

COLLOQUIUM:  Tuesday, January 27th, 19:30 p.m.

Set in London during and just after World War II, the novel examines the obsessions, jealousy and discernments within the relationships between the central characters: writer Maurice Bendrix; Sarah Miles; and her husband, civil servant Henry Miles. Graham Greene’s own affair with Lady Catherine Walston played into the basis for The End of the Affair.

Extraído de wikipedia.

Recommended links:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25338-2323675,00.html

http://www.enotes.com/end-affair

http://panfletonegro.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=379&Itemid=56

 

Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover why words are better read in a circle!

Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at biblioteca@iie.es.