ONLINE: A Zoom invitation link will be sent the Friday before each class session begins.
Class registrants should read Bernard Malamud’s The Natural (1952) before the 1st session.
Class registrants should read Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) before the 2nd session.
Baseball season is in full swing! What better time to read and discuss two acclaimed novels about “America’s pastime”? The first week’s discussion will be dedicated to Bernard Malamud’s The Natural (1952), the story of the rise and fall of a super hitter. The second session’s discussion will be dedicated to Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) and its focus on the friendship between a pitcher and catcher. Note: Both books were translated into well-received film versions later in the 20th century; while not required, class participants may be interested in checking them out. Class registrants should plan to read each book prior to its class session. Cecilia Donohue retired in 2013 following a 25-year career of undergraduate instruction, graduate teaching, and academic administration. She now resides in east Tennessee with her husband Bill and their menagerie of horse, cat, and dog. Currently an associate editor of The Steinbeck Review, Cecilia has written extensively on America’s southern authors and poets, notably Robert Penn Warren and Anne Tyler.
