Book Groups
Summer Discussion Project
May 4, 2020 | Book Groups, News & Announcements
The Maine Humanities Council is excited to provide a new, flexible opportunity to host a text-based discussion program that meets the needs of your own community, whether you are working independently or as part of an organization. The current moment calls for great flexibility – and we want to support people in Maine’s communities in… Read more
Book Groups update
Mar 25, 2020 | Book Groups, News & Announcements
In the days and weeks to come, we will be reaching out to partners and facilitators across the state to listen, learn, and share with them what we are learning. We’ll be developing new programming, hoping to make it as easy as we can for you to gather a group to discuss a text together… Read more
Become a book group facilitator
Jan 23, 2020 | Book Groups, News & Announcements
Our facilitators value, enjoy, and are really really good at reading and exploring poems, stories, and ideas in conversation with other curious, interested people. We encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds, particularly those from historically underrepresented groups, whose professional and personal experiences can help us work toward realizing our vision of the communities of Maine transformed… Read more
New journalism book series for libraries
Dec 6, 2019 | Book Groups, Let's Talk About It, Library programs, News & Announcements
Where Are We, Anyway? Readings: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 paired with Jill Lepore’s “Does Journalism Have a Future?” (newyorker.com, January 28, 2019) More Than Fun and Games Readings: Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death paired with David Puttnam’s TED Talk (‘Duty of Care’ in the Media) and Tim Groseclose’s Q&A on freakonomics.com (August 8,… Read more
