Harrison Reading Community

Every month the Harrison Reading Community meets to discuss various literary texts centered upon issues of race, class, religion, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

A Provostial grant for the Campus for Community allows Harrison to provide copies of the texts selected for discussion.

Every month the Harrison Reading Community meets to discuss various literary texts centered upon issues of race, class, religion, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.Texts selected have included: Between the World and Me; Go Set a Watchman; Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea; How Does it Feel to be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America; and the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

The texts for the 2019-2020 academic year are:

  • Circe by Madeline Miller (September 15, 2019 at 11:00 AM)

  • The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (October 6, 2019 at 11:00 AM)

  • There There by Tommy Orange (November 10, 2019 at 11:00 AM)

  • Educated by Tara Westover (January 26, 2020 at 11:00 AM)

  • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (March 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM)

  • Exit West by Moshin Hamid (April 19, 2020 at 11:00 AM)