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Here's the schedule for 2025:

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 will be on the 8:15 pm call 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.

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