Here's the upcoming schedule:
2025 Q4: The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts '02.
December 2, 2025 at 1 pm Eastern and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Monica will be on the 8:15 call with us.
2026 Q1: Civil Rights Warrior: A Life on the Front Lines of Justice, Equality, and the American Dream by Evelyn Jones Rich '54.
March 31, 2026 at 1 pm Eastern and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Evie will be on both calls with us. The book is being released on March 3, 2026, so if you preorder it you'll have four weeks to read it before the call.
2026 Q2: TBA
2026 Q3: My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris '68.
September 22, 2026 at 1 pm Eastern and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Jessica will be on both calls with us.
This list is run by me, Magda Pecsenye Zarin '94, of Detroit, only for educational and community-building purposes. We may end up doing a workshop on how to find the hook of your own memoir, or how to get your memoir published, or other memoir-related topics in addition to the book club. If you decide that this isn't email you want to receive, just unsubscribe. I won't know so it won't hurt my feelings.
Previous books:
2023 Q1: Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn 1928 held March 14, 2023.
2023 Q2: Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs by Jamie Fiore Higgins '98 held June 13, 2023. Jamie joined the meetings.
2023 Q3: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001 by Ellis Avery '93
held September 11, 2023.
2023 Q4: Never Simple by Liz Scheier '00
December 5, 2023 at 1 pm and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Liz was on both meetings.
2024 Q1: Recognize and Give Thanks by Marcia Young Cantarella '68
February 6, 2024 at 1 pm and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Marcia was on both meetings.
2024 Q2: Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust '68
April 30, 2024 at 1 pm and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Drew was on the 1 pm meeting.
2024 Q3: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner 1921 and Emily Kimbrough 1921
August 13, 2024 at 1 pm and 8:15 pm Eastern Time.
2024 Q4: Sorry For the Inconvenience by Farah Naz Rishi '12
December 3, 2024 at 1 pm and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Farah was on the 1 pm meeting.
2025 Q1: Choosing Life by Leslie Sussan '73. February 11, 2025 at 1 pm Eastern and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Leslie was on both calls.
2025 Q2: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York by Jeremiah Moss (pen name of Griffin Hansbury '93). May 6, 2025 at 1 pm Eastern and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Griffin was on the 8:15 pm call with us.
2025 Q3: Badass Grief by Jennifer E. Hassel '79. September 9, 2025 at 1 pm Eastern and 8:15 pm Eastern Time. Jennifer was on both calls with us.