Food for Thought: Unforgettable
Scott Simon was a recent speaker at St. John’s Episcopal Church, and we have selected his You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning...
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Jan 31, 20191 min read
Food for Thought: Get in Trouble
Kelly Link was a recent visiting writer at YSU, and we have selected her book as part of You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning...
Jan 31, 20191 min read
Food for Thought: I’m Still Here
Austin Channing Brown recently spoke at St. John’s Episcopal Church, so we have selected her book as part I’m Still Here: Black Dignity...
Dec 30, 20181 min read
Claudia Rankine at Parma-Snow Library January 23
Many of you joined our Food for Thought discussion of Citizen: An American Lyric last year, part of our series on the American...
Dec 30, 20181 min read
Food for Thought: Savage Country
Many of you enjoyed the reading and craft talk by Robert Olmstead Savage Country. “For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown-black and...
Nov 11, 20181 min read
Food for Thought: Crossings
Join us for a conversation about Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier’s Story by Fall Literary Festival visiting writer Jon Kerstetter. Read more...
May 5, 20181 min read
Food for Thought: Camp Olvido
We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, May 9, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat, please...
Apr 11, 20181 min read
Food for Thought: My Own Country
Join us for a discussion of the highly awarded memoir My Own Country. The author, Abraham Verghese, a physician who grew up in Ethiopia,...
Mar 6, 20181 min read
Food for Thought: Phenomenal Women
We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, March 14, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat, please...
Feb 12, 20181 min read
Food for Thought: Citizen
We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, February 14, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat,...
Dec 16, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: March Trilogy
Our next book discussion will focus on the graphic novel trilogy March by Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Representative John Lewis....
Nov 15, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: Famous Drownings in Literary History
Wednesday December 13, 6:00-7:00, Cultivate Co-op Cafe, 901 Elm St. We continue our exploration of the rich diversity of the American...
Oct 29, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: The Round House
Wednesday, November 8, 6:00-7:00, Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St. If you wish to order dinner at Cultivate, please arrive well before the...
Oct 4, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: The Coldest Night
Olmstead, recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, was a visiting writer to Lit Youngstown’s first Fall Literary Festival on...
Aug 29, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: The Weight of Heaven
Our new series examines the rich diversity of the American experience. The first title is The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar, a...
Jun 17, 20171 min read
More Food for Thought!
Our monthly book club will take the summer off and start back up again in the fall with a new focus: the American experience, fiction,...
May 31, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
We made a quick switch for our last book selection in our food-themed series, and decided to discuss the first section of Michael...
Apr 18, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: Immortal Milk, Adventures in Cheese
This month’s book-club book is by Ohio University faculty member Eric LeMay, who leads us to artisan cheesemakers in Europe and the...
Mar 4, 20171 min read
Food for Thought: Closing the Food Gap
The last three books in our food-themed book series will be non-fiction, but very different in tone and content: from serious to humorous...
Feb 13, 20171 min read
Food for Thought Book Club
This month we will read and discuss Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. According to the New York Times: Barbara Kingsolver’s new...
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