May Club Updates

May 7

Chad Harbaugh, Author of May Selection comes to Chicago:

Printers Row Live:

Chad Harbach, May 7

 

On the bestseller list since it was published "The Art of Fielding." by Chad Harbach is considered by many to be the next great baseball novel, on a shelf with Bernard Malamud’s “The Natural.” Even for those lacking interest in the national pastime, “The Art of Fielding” is a book to inspire conversation about relationships – friendship, love, rivalry – and a world in which characters have books as their touchstones.

Chad Harbach will join Elizabeth Taylor and Rick Kogan on May 7 at a Printers Row Live program at the Latin School of Chicago, 59 W. North Ave. Harbach will meet Printers Row members at a special reception at 6:30 p.m. The program begins at 7.

Tickets for this program are $15

Ticket Link

http://chadharbach.eventbrite.com/

May 8 Book Club Selection:

Tuesday May 8 Book Club Selection

Book Summary:

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and

teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.

As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.(less)