Adventures in Classic Readings Sponsored by the FOL's Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Fund

This reading group, facilitated by Dr. Laury Magnus, Professor of English, will feature great classic works — ancient to contemporary — as well as participatory reading out loud of selected passages. This month, our selection is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Set in Italy during World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of the bombardier Yossarian, caught up not only  in the insanity of flying suicidal missions, but in the implacable illogic of American Army rules:  if a combatant “was crazy …[he] could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.“  Orville Prescott’s New York Times review found it “Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, . . .a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.”   

PLEASE NOTE the time change. This month's meeting will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Copies of the book will be available at the Information Desk. All participants will receive a complimentary copy of the book provided by the Friends of the Library’s Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Fund (while supplies last).