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Calendar of Events
 
Tue., Sep 7 1:00 Literacy Advance of Houston
    Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
 
Sat., Sep 11 2:00 Heights
    Joseph Conrad: Typhoon
 
Sun., Sep 12 1:30 Northwest
    Wislawa Szymborska: Selected Poems
 
Mon., Sep 13 7:00 Central Market
    Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
 
Tue., Sep 14 12:00 West University
    Xu Xi: Famine
 
Sun., Sep 19 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    Bruce Umbaugh: On Berkeley
 
Tue., Sep 21 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
 
Thu., Sep 23 6:30 Classical Poetry
    George Herbert: George Herbert's poems
 
Thu., Sep 23 7:00 Looscan
    Northrop Frye: The Great Code
 
Sun., Sep 26 3:00 Always on Sunday
    D. H. Lawrence: The Rocking-Horse Winner
 
Sun., Sep 26 4:00 Memorial
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception, Part I, Sec 5, P178 to end Part II
 
Wed., Oct 6 8:00 Explorers
    Stephen Hawking: The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
 
Thu., Oct 7 6:00 Montrose
    Robert Bolt: A Man For All Seasons
 
Sat., Oct 9 2:00 Heights
    Willa Cather: My Ántonia
 
Sun., Oct 10 3:30 Northwest
    Michel Foucault: The Body of the Condemned
 
Mon., Oct 11 7:00 Central Market
    Thomas Hardy: Mayor of Casterbridge
 
Sun., Oct 17 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1, Parts 1-2
 
Tue., Oct 19 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
 
Thu., Oct 21 6:30 Classical Poetry
    Anne Bradstreet: Anne Bradstreet's poems
 
Sun., Oct 24 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Steven Weinberg: Beautiful Theories: Symmetry and Mathematics
 
Sun., Oct 24 4:00 Memorial
    Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception (Part III, P 429 to end of book)
 
Thu., Oct 28 7:00 Clear Lake
    Jorge Luis Borges: The Death and the Compass - short story
 
Sat., Oct 30 2:00 Monumental Great Books
    Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
 
Wed., Nov 3 8:00 Explorers
    Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych
 
Thu., Nov 4 6:00 Montrose
    Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
 
Mon., Nov 8 7:00 Central Market
    Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day
 
Sat., Nov 13 2:00 Heights
    Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
 
Sun., Nov 14 1:30 Northwest
    Jumpha Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies
 
Sun., Nov 14 4:00 Memorial
    Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal (Movie)
 
Thu., Nov 18 7:00 Clear Lake
    To Be Determined: To Be Determined
 
Sun., Nov 21 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Elizabeth Bowen: The Inherited Clock
 
Sun., Nov 21 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1, Parts 3-4
 
Wed., Dec 1 8:00 Explorers
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
 
Thu., Dec 2 6:00 Montrose
    Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head
 
Sat., Dec 11 2:00 Heights
    Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude
 
Sun., Dec 12 4:00 Memorial
    Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
 
Mon., Dec 13 7:00 Central Market
    Toni Morrison: Beloved
 
Sun., Dec 19 3:00 Always on Sunday
    George Kane: Why Physics is the Easiest Science: Effective Theories
 
Sun., Dec 19 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 2
 
 

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