New England Seminar

The New England Seminar meets the first Monday of every month at 6:00 pm. The Group reads fiction and non-fiction written about Boston and New England. Past selections include Santayana's "The Last Puritan," Louis Menand's "The Metaphysical Club," Dorothy West's "The Living Is Easy," William Dean Howells' "The Rise of Silas Lapham," Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Collected Short Stories."

2011-2012

September 12: Michael Rawson, Eden on the Charles
October 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
November7: John Matteson, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
December 5: Thomas O’Connor, Civil War Boston
January 9: Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981
                               with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes)
February 6: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
March 5: Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
April 2: Alex Ross, Listen to This
May 7: Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
June 4: Paul Schneider, The Enduring Shore:  A History of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket

Book List from New England Seminar Past Meetings