Contact Information
The Kay Falk Literary Project is centered at the Cathedral as part of its teaching mission. The nucleus of the project is the Book Group, in which parish and community members have the opportunity to talk about literature together. The Project also regularly brings writers to the Cathedral out of its ongoing commitment to nourishing the life of faith with the life of the mind. Newcomers are always welcome!
Emilie's Notes and Questions
Connection articles
This January, the All Souls Book Group Reads…
Michael Ondaatje’s novel, The English Patient
“Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize–winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip – each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man’s incandescent memories – of the bleak North African desert, of explorers’ caves and Bedouin tribesmen, of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger – that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed.” – from the Everyman’s Library edition
“Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to another world … Ondaatje’s most probing examination yet of the nature of identity.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Mr. Ondaatje [is] one of North America’s finest novelists … The spell of his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages for the pure pleasure of being there.” – Wall Street Journal
Schedule of Meetings
- Monday, January 9th, 7 p.m., first floor Conference Room of the Warner Building
- Monday, January 23rd, 7 p.m., first floor Conference Room of the Warner Building
Book Availability
Copies of The English Patient are now available at Accent on Books (828-252-6255), on Merrimon Avenue, at discounted price, thanks to parishioner Lewis Sorrells.
How can I find out more?
Please visit the Book Group website at: http://allsoulsconnection.org/groups/all-souls-book-group, or our page at the Center for Spiritual Resources site: http://thecsr.org/all-souls-book-group-resources
The All Souls Book Group is the nucleus of the Kay Falk Literary Project, which is centered at the Cathedral as part of its teaching mission.
For more information, please contact Emilie White at etwhite8@charter.net.
This December, the All Souls Book Group Reads…
The Short Stories of William Trevor
“Trevor is probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language.” —The New Yorker
“One of the finest writers now at work in our language. . .No writer practicing the form today moves with nimbler assurance than Trevor across such an impressive gamut of social types and emotional connections.”
— The Boston Globe“Extraordinary… Mr. Trevor’s sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people…proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought.”
— The New York Times Book Review
Book Availability
We will be reading from William Trevor’s Selected Stories (2010), now available at Accent on Books, on Merrimon Avenue, at discounted price, thanks to parishioner Lewis Sorrells.
Schedule of Meetings
- Monday, December 5th, 7 p.m., the Warner Building. Stories to be discussed: “A Bit on the Side” and “The Children”
- Monday, December 12th, 7 p.m., the Warner Building. Stories to be discussed: “Of the Cloth” and “The Dressmaker’s Child”
- Monday, December 19th, 7 p.m., the C. E. Room. Story to be discussed: “The News from Ireland.” Please note: “The News from Ireland” is not included in The Selected Stories. For a copy, please e-mail Emilie White at etwhite8@charter.net
- Wednesday, December 21st, 7 p.m., the Nave. Interested book group members will congregate in the nave to read aloud “The Virgin’s Gift,” with a reception to follow in the Parish Hall.
How can I find out more?
Please visit the Book Group website at: http://allsoulsconnection.org/groups/all-souls-book-group, or our page at the Center for Spiritual Resources site: http://thecsr.org/all-souls-book-group-resources
The All Souls Book Group is the nucleus of the Kay Falk Literary Project, which is centered at the Cathedral as part of its teaching mission. For more information, please contact Emilie White at etwhite8@charter.net.
This November, the All Souls Book Group Reads…
The Short Stories of William Trevor
“Trevor is probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language.” —The New Yorker
“One of the finest writers now at work in our language. . .No writer practicing the form today moves with nimbler assurance than Trevor across such an impressive gamut of social types and emotional connections.”
— The Boston Globe“Extraordinary… Mr. Trevor’s sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people…proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought.”
— The New York Times Book Review
Book Availability
We will be reading from William Trevor’s Selected Stories (2010), now available at Accent on Books, on Merrimon Avenue, at discounted price, thanks to parishioner Lewis Sorrells.
Schedule of Meetings
- Monday, November 14th, 7 p.m., the Warner Building. Stories to be discussed: “Faith” and “The Virgin’s Gift.”
- Monday, November 21st, 7 p.m., the CE Room. Stories to be discussed: “Cheating at Canasta” and “After Rain.”
- Monday, November 28th, 7 p.m., the Warner Building. Stories to be discussed: “Widows” and “Timothy’s Birthday.”
How can I find out more?
Please visit the Book Group website at: http://allsoulsconnection.org/groups/all-souls-book-group, or our page at the Center for Spiritual Resources site:
http://thecsr.org/all-souls-book-group-resources
The All Souls Book Group is the nucleus of the Kay Falk Literary Project, which is centered at the Cathedral as part of its teaching mission. For more information, please contact Emilie White at etwhite8@charter.net.
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
Jennifer Egan’s novel, The Keep
A Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star...
Flannery O’Connor’s novel, The Violent Bear it Away (1960)
...Flannery O’Connor’s novel, The Violent Bear it Away (1960)
...
William Faulkner’s novel, As I Lay Dying
At the heart...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day
The Remains of...
Debra Allbery’s Collection of Poetry, Fimbul-Winter
Debra Allbery...
Our first meeting, on Monday, April 4, will be spent looking at the sonnet, as a conclusion of...
Poetry, With an Emphasis on Poetic Forms
What does THAT mean?
...
“Psalm Eight,” an essay by Marilynne Robinson
Meeting times and...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
Meeting times and...
Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved (1987)
Meeting times and locations:
...
Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon (1977)
Meeting times...
Meeting times and locations:
- Monday, October 4, 7 p.m., the Parish Hall...
