Reading Groups

Cormac McCarthy's The Road with Elizabeth Howard

4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 9 to October 30, 2024

The Center for Fiction

The ‘With Book’ option includes the title required for this group at a 10% discount from our Bookstore.

Meeting Dates:
10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30
In Person at The Center for Fiction

If you have not read Cormac McCarthy, The Road is an excellent entry point, as well as a harrowing parable to read again and again. The Road is the story of a journey, imagining a future with no hope. However, it also raises the questions readers want to think about on their own journey through time and space.

What to read in advance of the first meeting: Please read the first 70 pages of The Road by Cormac McCarthy

What to expect from this reading group: Sessions will include guided reading and discussion. A guest scholar and member of the Cormac McCarthy Society will speak at one of the sessions via Zoom.

Capacity: 20

Led by

Elizabeth Howard

Elizabeth Howard

Elizabeth Howard is the producer and host of the Short Fuse Podcast, conversations with artists, writers, musicians, and others whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. Her articles related to communication and marketing have appeared in European Communications, Investor Relations, Law Firm Marketing & Profit Report, Communication World, The Strategist, and the New York Law Journal, among others. Her books include Queen Anne’s Lace and Wild Blackberry Pie (Thornwillow Press, 2011), A Day with Bonefish Joe (David Godine, 2015), and Ned O’Gorman: A Glance Back (Easton Studio Press, 2016). Elizabeth Howard lives in New York City.

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