Readings for August 27th in "Sex"

Last evening our "Money" discussion drew 20 attendees and ranged over authors as diverse as Thoreau, Marx, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, John Cheever, and Barbara Ehrenreich. It was the first time in our 8 years together that we've attempted to discuss such a large number of readings (10 in all) at once.

Next month's discussion on "Sex" will focus on seven of the readings contained in that volume.  They are:

David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11-12:7)
"To His Mistress Going to Bed," by John Donne
Sex (selection) by Fay Weldon
"Helen of Troy Goes Counter Dancing" by Margaret Atwood
"Lust," by Susan Minot
"Love and Trust" by Louann Brizendine
"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" by Nathan Englander

Questions about "Money"

Gentle Readers,

Our discussion of  "Vital Ideas: Money" on Monday, July 23rd, will consist of a series of comparison questions of the following selections:

• Henry David Thoreau's "Economy" and Karl Marx's "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society"
• John Cheever's "The Housebreaker of Heartbreak Hill" and "Barbara Ehrenreich's "Selling in Minnesota"
• Harriet Jacob's "New Master and Mistress" and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits"
• Theodore Drieser's "Sister Carrie" (selection) and Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" (selection)
• Thoreau and the Katy Lederer poem "The Heaven-Sent Leaf"
• Paco Underhill's "Sex and the Mall" and the Theodore Dreiser selection.

For further details see p. 149 in the "Money" book.

Have at it and have fun!