Special Interest Groups: Book Club and Young Professionals
Book Club
For more than a decade, the PBKACA Book Group has gathered on Sunday afternoons to discuss, debate, and share in-depth, collaborative explorations of great books. Book group members come from an array profession and backgrounds. The quality of discussions that results is lively and elicits many diverse observations that stretch the mind.
"I enjoy the PBKACA book group because I love reading, spending time with intelligent people, and expressing my views in a supportive but discerning atmosphere. Our discussions are very lively, informal and purposeful,” says Sarah Bornstein, a devoted book group attendee.
The book group meets Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Nix Restaurant at the Knickerbocker Hotel, 163 East Walton Place, Chicago. Join us for one or all of the following dates. For more information, contact Roz Hoffman at info@pbkaca.org.
Feb. 7: The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Mary S. Lovell
Mar. 7: The Land of Green Plum by Herta Mueller
Apr. 11: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
May 2: Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
June 6: My Father's Secret War by Lucinda Franks
July 11: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by A. Solzhenitsyn
Sept. 12: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Oct. 3: Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Nov. 7: The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert Remini
Dec. 5: Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Young Professionals
While the broadmindedness of
Phi Beta Kappans can bridge across the potential obstacles
of generation gaps, those social animal instincts we all
have ingrained into our psyches can make "birds of a feather
want to flock together." Accordingly, particularly for
the newest members to our community of scholars, those
persons within about the first decade or so (but we're
not counting too closely!) after their college years,
we organize targeted activities. For more information, contact info@pbkaca.org.
