Mini book club: Work and identity

Do you enjoy book clubs, but don't always have time to finish a full-length novel? Join us for "mini book club"! This is a space-limited event, so please commit to your RSVP.

For our next meeting, we will discuss two articles and a poem about work and identity. What role (if any) should your job or career have in your identity? Has the role of work in your identity changed over time? How do culture and gender roles influence the role of work? Come discuss!

"Why the French Don’t Obsess Over Purpose" by Pamela Clapp (2025): https://theparisialite.substack.com/p/why-the-french-dont-obsess-over-purpose

"How 'The Devil Wears Prada' foreshadowed an age of antiheroines" by Alyssa Rosenberg (2016): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/06/30/how-the-devil-wears-prada-foreshadowed-an-age-of-antiheroines/

"Work" by Henry van Dyke (late 1800s or early 1900s, the phrase "Protestant work ethic" was coined around this time in 1905): https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=3104