Carleton’s Regional Carls Program

There are four Northern California Carleton Book Club chapters.  All four chapters are beginning with the same book: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Book of Memoirs by Azar Nafisi.  The book will be discussed at the meeting, so please pick up a copy and start reading today.

If anyone is interested in participating in future book club meetings but cannot make the first meeting, please notify the first meeting host, per below.

Amazon.com quotes the following Publishers Weekly review:  "This book transcends categorization as memoir, literary criticism or social history, though it is superb as all three. Literature professor Nafisi returned to her native Iran after a long education abroad, remained there for some 18 years, and left in 1997 for the United States, where she now teaches at Johns Hopkins.  Woven through her story are the books she has taught along the way, among them works by Nabokov, Fitzgerald, James and Austen. She casts each author in a new light, showing, for instance, how to interpret The Great Gatsby against the turbulence of the Iranian revolution and how her students see Daisy Miller as Iraqi bombs fall on Tehran. .......Nafisi has produced an original work on the relationship between life and literature.  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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San Francisco/North Bay Carleton Book Club

Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7 pm. 

Cup and Cake Cafe, 3500 Geary St, San Francisco

RSVP by Tuesday, September 29 to Rob Spence '88 at carleton1988@yahoo.com or 415-924-9708.

South Bay/Peninsula Carleton Book Club

Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7 pm.

(The event location was included in the original invitation, and for privacy reasons is not listed here.  If you need assistance, contact the Alumni Affairs Office at 800-729-2586 or alumni-office@carleton.edu)

RSVP by Monday, September 28 to Patty Mitchell '82.

Sacramento/Davis Carleton Book Club
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7 pm.

Ettore's, 2374 Fair Oaks Blvd, Sacramento

RSVP by Sunday, October 4 to Karen Buxton '66.

East Bay Carleton Book Club

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 7 pm. 

(The event location was included in the original invitation, and for privacy reasons is not listed here.  If you need assistance, contact the Alumni Affairs Office at 800-729-2586 or alumni-office@carleton.edu)

RSVP by Monday, October 5 to Erika Hansen '97.