Great Books Group to meet May 17

Great Books Group to meet May 17

St. Thomas' Great Books Reading Group will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, in Room 388, Owens Science Hall, to discuss Barbara Ehrenreich's 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

The new tentative schedule for the coming months:

  • June 14: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr
  • July 19: The Red and the Black by Stendhal (pen name for Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842)
  • Aug. 30: The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day

Everyone's welcome to join the Great Books Reading Group. For more information, or to make requests and comments, contact Dr. Thomas Tommet, (651) 962-5211.