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2025 Reading List

 

To enrich your experience this season, we invite you to explore books and films recommended by our speakers. Whether you dive into a book or watch an engaging film, each offers a deeper connection to the conversations we'll share at the Monadnock Summer Lyceum.

 

July 6: Christian McEwen

  • In Praise of Listening (2023)

  • World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down (2011)

July 13: Shilpa Jindia

  • Free Speech on Campus by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman (2017)

  • The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate by Kenneth S. Stern (2020)

July 20: Dr. Annie Brewster

  • The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss (2022)

August 3: Douglas Anderson

  • Recommended Viewing: Broadway: The American Musical

  • (PBS, Six-Part Series, 2004) Watch Online

August 10: Nora Fiffer

  • Special Viewing: Nora Fiffer’s film Another Happy Day

  • August 9, 11:30 a.m., Peterborough Community Theatre

August 17: Charles Coe

  • Charles Coe: New and Selected Works (2024)

  • Purgatory Road: Poems (2023)

August 24: Sara Bronin

  • Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (2024)