― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

The Week Seven CLSC selection features Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Evicted draws on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data to transform our understanding of inequity and economic exploitation in America. This CLSC Author Presentation will take place at 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, in the Amphitheater in collaboration with the Chautauqua Lecture Series. If you’re not able to join us on the grounds, you can join us from home on CHQ Assembly. 

The Week Seven CLSC Young Readers selection is Tae Keller’s Jennifer Chan is Not Alone. All interested young readers and family members should join us on Sunday, August 7, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. on the Hultquist Center porch for our book discussion and themed activity. 

This gathering will also feature our Early Reader’s selection, Mi Casa is My Home by Laurenne Sala and Zara González Hoang. We encourage you to read our CLSC Young Reader Classic Selections for this summer: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. 
 

― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

The Week Six CLSC selection features Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle. Great Circle is a “masterclass in historical fiction” according to The Telegraph. In effortless and dazzling prose, Maggie Shipstead weaves together an expansive story that covers more than a century. This CLSC Author Presentation will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 4, 2022, in the Hall of Philosophy. A book signing will follow on the porch of Alumni Hall. If you’re not able to join us on the grounds, you can join us from home on CHQ Assembly. 

Don’t miss the CLSC Book Discussion on Monday, August 1, 2022, at 12:15 p.m. on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall (and streamed live via the Chautauqua Literary Arts Facebook page) featuring co-presenters Dr. Susan Allen and Melanie Ritzenthaler.

The Week Six CLSC Young Readers selection is Edith’s graphic novel rendition of the classic Tom’s Midnight Garden.

― Anna North, Outlawed

The Week Five CLSC selection features Anna North’s Outlawed. Centered on irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. This CLSC Author Presentation will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2022, in the Hall of Philosophy. A book signing will follow on the porch of the Alumni Hall. If you cannot join us on the grounds, you can join us from home on CHQ Assembly.

― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Week Four's CLSC selection features Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. This book examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how a hierarchy of social divisions still defines our lives. This CLSC Author Presentation has been postponed. Chautauqua is working with Ms. Wilkerson to reschedule the program to happen in the Fall or online.  That should give you plenty of time to read it beforehand!

-- Erica Chenoweth, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

The Week Three CLSC selection features Erica Chenoweth’s Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. In this book, Chenoweth — one of the world’s leading scholars on the topic–explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance. Featuring both historical cases of civil resistance and more contemporary examples such as the Arab Awakenings and various ongoing movements in the United States, this book provides a comprehensive yet pithy overview of this enormously important subject. This CLSC Author Presentation will take place on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy. A book signing on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will follow. This CLSC Author Presentation will be streamed live on CHQ Assembly and be available on-demand for the following week. 

Don’t miss the CLSC Book Discussion on Monday, July 11, 2022, at 12:15 p.m. on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall with co-presenters Philip Allen and Margaret Edwards.

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

The Week Two CLSC program features Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. This CLSC Author Presentation will take place on Thursday, July 7, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy. A book signing on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will follow.