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Author Talk: 50 Reasons to Read 50 High School Curriculum Books Again | SF

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE
The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

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Remember reading Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby in high school? How about Slaughterhouse-Five and Pride and Prejudice? Would you read them again now that no one’s grading you, just for your own enjoymentPractical Classics helps you do just that.

Kevin Smokler guides you through fifty books commonly assigned in high school English class and shows you why you’d probably enjoy re-reading the same books as an adult. Smokler’s essays on the classics — witty, down-to-earth, appreciative, and insightful — are divided into ten sections, each covering an archetypical stage of life, from youth and first love to family, loss, and the future. He not only reminds us of the essential features of each great book but gives us a practical, real-world reason why revisiting it in adulthood is not only enjoyable, but useful. That’s right: enjoyable and useful.

Kevin Smokler is the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Believer.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: Literature
Address: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117