The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Virtual Book Discussion)

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower , a science fiction ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 17th. Eleven of us met over Zoom. This amazing book begins in ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Parable of the Sower and My Monticello

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday May 14th with a discussion of both Parable of the Sower by Octavia ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Notes from Book Discussion May 22, 2021 The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday June 26 th with a lively unpacking of Such a Fun Age by Kiley Rei...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Brother by David Chariandy

Brother by David Chariandy Book Discussion of Brother by David Chariandy The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Book Discussion of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series resumed on Saturday Dec. 5th. There were 13 of us on the session. This book: Stamped: Ra...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Urban Life Experience Book Discsussion Series continued on Jan. 9, 2021, with our first book discussion of the new year. The book, Hom...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Lucille Clifton: good woman: poetry and a memoir 1969-1980

In honor of National Poetry Month, our selection for The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series is Good Woman: Poems and ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Nov. 23, 2019. Nine of us met and all agreed that this was a hard ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

ULEBDS :Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 5th. Thirteen of us met here at the Wilson Library for...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper by Charles Barber

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued via Zoom during the COVID 19 shutdown! Eleven us met on a Zoom conference a...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued with a conversation about the book Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmoth...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana parrish where the people live on the same plantations that they had lived as slaves one...

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Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series - Books & Literature

The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

Easily Slip into Another World by Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas 2023

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Cornelius Eady: Brutal Imagination 2001

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby, 2003

Never Far from Home by Bruce Jackson

The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr. in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr.

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain Ph.D.

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence Injustice and the American City

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates

New People by Danzy Senna

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar

The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke

Elm City Lit Fest Podcast - The Significance of Black Literature and Bl...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Virtual Book Discussion)

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Parable of the Sower and My Monticello

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Brother by David Chariandy

Book Discussion of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Lucille Clifton: good woman: poetry and a memoir 1969-1980

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

ULEBDS :Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper by Charles Barber

Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

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