What we’re about
In this group, we'll explore the Stories that Matter in our lives: From the classics of literature, film, even the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives.
We will approach them several different ways.
Deep Reads: We will regularly select a longer text, and spend months working through it, savoring it.
Shorter Works/Films: Other times, we will select a short text or film to consume in one setting.
Stories of Our Lives: Otherwise, we will find ways to connect around the things that make life worth living.
The organizer, Sean Doyle, is the author of Mud and Dreams; Essays on falling deeper in life (https://amzn.to/2xDQSYQ) and taught positive psychology at NCSU for a decade. Whether I intend it or not, every meeting we will draw from the science of happiness, well-being and flourishing. For more info, see www.JohnSeanDoyle.com
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Deep Reads: East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Final Session!)Lynnwood Brewing Concern, Raleigh, NC
Over a two-month period, we are going to read East of Eden by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck (1952).
Perhaps Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, the book parallels the biblical Book of Genesis (especially Genesis Chapter 4, the story of Cain and Abel) as it explores themes of depravity, beneficence, love, the struggle for acceptance and greatness, the capacity for self-destruction, and of guilt and freedom.This month we will finish the book
You can find a copy here: If you buy any of the version after clicking on my link, I will get a few pennies to help support the cost of the meetup.
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Want to help support the meetup? A few of you generously asked if you could help support the cost of the meetup. It costs me about $180/year ($90 twice a year) If you would like to contribute $5, $10, $20 or any amount the easiest way is venmo: @JohnSeanDoyle or just reach out to me directly. Thanks for considering it! - Deep Reads: Selected Stories of Jorge Luis Borges (one session only)Lynnwood Brewing Concern, Raleigh, NC
This month we are going to read six short stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1899—1986).
Borges, the blind Director of the Argentine National Library, was a founder and principal practitioner of postmodernist literature. With his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry, Borges “effectively influenced the destiny of literature."
While the six stories (listed below) we will read this month are all short, they are tremendously rich, and will lead to great discussion topics
Five of the six can be found in the short stories collections “Ficciones” or “Labyrinths” found here.
If you buy any of the version after clicking on my link, I will get a few pennies to help support the cost of the meetup.
However, each of the stories are also available for free on line (Links below). This month we will read:
- The Secret Miracle
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- The Library of Babel
- Funes, the Memorious
- The Aleph (not included in Labyrinths)
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Want to help support the meetup? A few of you generously asked if you could help support the cost of the meetup. It costs me about $180/year ($90 twice a year) If you would like to contribute $5, $10, $20 or any amount the easiest way is venmo: @JohnSeanDoyle or just reach out to me directly. Thanks for considering it!
