Guides: Archived Reading Groups: Alternate Worlds SFF Book Club: The City We Became (Nov 2021)

Fall 2021 Schedule

Th City We Became 11/1,8,15 7-8:30 pm via Zoom co-sponsored by TTU Library

Monday, November 1, 2021 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Blake Collier
via Zoom

Monday, November 8, 2021 | 7 - 8:30 p.m.
via Zoom

Monday, November 15, 2021 | 7-8:30 pm

To register, please RSVP to Blaine Grimes blaine.grimes@ttu.edu

The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants one week before each session.

Participants will be required to obtain a copy of the book at their own expense.

Please email blaine.grimes@ttu.edu if you need assistance with this.

"Blake is a freelance writer, critic, and independent researcher in various fields including

horror culture, film, dementia, and other culture-related subjects. Most of his writing has

appeared on Mockingbird and Reel World Theology, sites dedicated to religious

explorations of culture. He received "Article of the Year" from Film Inquiry for his essay, "A

Violent System: How Marxism Is Making A Cinematic Comeback" in 2020. He wrote a l

lengthy essay for Film Inquiry on the film Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) that got noticed (and

read, twice) by John Cusack, himself. He, however, is currently expanding his writing

subject base beyond film into politics, history, philosophy, and other subject matter."

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Laura Hanifin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

N.K. Jimsin " Nora Keita Jemisin^[1] (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, better known as N. K. Jemisin. She has also worked as a counseling psychologist. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression.^[2]^[3] Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. The three books of her Broken Earth series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy.^[4] Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020."