If All Niagara reads the same book…

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If All Niagara Reads The Same Book…

 

WASTING AWAY A BOOK SERIES of

CONTEMPORARY WRITING ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES

 

          Join us for this free discussion group, which uses science writers and novelists to explore our contemporary environmental crisis and calls us to responsible movement in the world that revolves around altered interactions with waste.

 

Beverages and snacks provided.

 

Participants may purchase books through the Book Corner, or provide their own.

                          

Ø Saturday. October 4, 10:00 a.m. GARBAGE LAND: On the Secret Trail of Trash,

by journalist Elizabeth Royle, explores the underworld of detritus and the movement of

personal waste to the landfill.

 

Ø Saturday, November 1, 10:00 a.m. Don DeLillio’s WHITE NOISE, focuses on the

fictional dark comedy of a cloud hovering over a small city and the evaluation of

personal choices it engenders.

 

Ø Saturday, December 6, 10 a.m. WATER WARS: Privatization, Pollution and Profit,

A conversation by Vandana Shiva, which explores the global problems of access

to clean water and of private purchase of this natural resource.

 

Ø Saturday, January 3, 10:00 a.m. Octavia Butler’s PARPABLE OF THE SOWER.

The series concludes with a discussion an examination of human life after a fictional

environmental collapse and celebrates the human capacity for change.

  

 Send Form Registration to:  THE BOOK CORNER (285-2928)

1801 Main Street, Niagara Falls, NY 14305

email:  info@fallsbookcorner.com

For additional information: 745-7625

                                

Sessions will be held at THE BOOK CORNER and will last 90 minutes.

MARY FOLTZ, a professional facilitator, will lead the discussions.