College of Liberal Arts offers student reading program
Auburn students, especially incoming College of Liberal Arts students, may be interested in CLA Reads!, a voluntary one-book reading program designed to help them develop a sense of community early in their Auburn student career. This year’s book is Lewis Nordan's “The Sharpshooter Blues” (Algonquin Books, 1995; ISBN 1-56512-182-1). It is a novel, similar to the works of William Faulkner, about a group of individuals coping with life in a small Southern town in the late 1950s. It involves crime, mental illness, shooting refrigerators and Wallace Stevens' poetry, showcasing Nordan’s writing as simultaneously hilarious and tragic. In addition to open CLA Reads! discussion sessions and an on-line Blackboard discussion that will begin over the summer, there will be lectures and panel discussions to discuss the novel in relation to Southern history, other Southern cultures, literary contexts, performance techniques and the music of Elvis. For more information about Nordan, who earned a PhD in English at Auburn, visit www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/nordan_lewis/.
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