CCW READING LIST
To participate in our local (DC area) monthly book discussions, email Jessica Schnepp at [email protected]. Fall 2017:
Meeting One:
Redeployment, Phil Klay
Meeting Two:
Street View: Poems, Maryann Corbett
The Stranger World, Ryan Wilson
Meeting Three:
Some Bore Gifts, A.G. Harmon
Meeting Four:
The Ninth Hour, Alice Mc Dermott
Summer 2017:
"Wolf in White Van" by John Darnie
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Selected Short fiction of Gene Wolfe
"The Innocents" a film by Anne Fontaine, 2016
"Boxers & Saints" by Gene Luen Yang
SPRING 2017:
Meeting One:
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Catholic Novelists and Their Readers" by Flannery O'Connor
Meeting Two:
"The Five Wounds" and "Night at the Fiestas" by Kirsten Valdez Quade
Meeting Three:
What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha
FALL 2016:
Meeting One:
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Meeting Two:
The Oracles Fell Silent by Lee Oser
Meeting Three:
Saint Sinatra and Other Poems by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Meeting Four:
St. Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota) by Zach Czaia
SUMMER 2016:
Meeting One:
Lit: A Memoir, Mary Karr
Meeting Two:
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
SPRING 2016:
Meeting One:
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff
Meeting Two:
“How to Think Like a Poet,” Ryan Wilson
Selected Poems, Ryan Wilson
Meeting Three:
99 Poems: New and Selected, Dana Gioia
FALL 2015:
Meeting One:
“Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?” Paul Elie
“The Catholic Writer Today,” Dana Gioia
“Cultural Anorexia: Doubting the Decline of Faith in Fiction,” Gregory Wolfe
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
Meeting Two:
Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen
Meeting Three:
“The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry,” James Matthew Wilson
Some Permanent Things, James Matthew Wilson
