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occupation: ??
Club Selections: The Sound and the Fury, Erehwan, The Music of Chance, The Betrothed
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Louise Cherkis
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Club Selections: The Red and Black, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Portrait of a Lady, Set This House on Fire,
Mrs. Dalloway
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Francine Colon
occupation: ??
Club Selections: East of Eden, Frankenstein, Love in the Time of Cholera,
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Randy Diamond
occupation: ??
Club Selections: Crime and Punishment, Syann's Way, Dubliners, Ulysses
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Andy Fair
occupation: immigration lawyer
Club Selections: The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Favorite Books: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Collected Works of
Abraham Lincoln, My Life (Casanova), Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), The
Conformist, and the Woman of Rome (Alberto Moravia), The Leopard (di Lampedusa),
I Shall Bear Witness (Klemperer), Mr. Mani (Yehoshua), The Food of France
(Waverly Root), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell), Tristram Shandy
(Laurence Stern), The Betrothed, The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, The
Histories, and the rest (Shakespeare), Civilization and Capitalism (Fernand
Braudel), The Mediterranean (Braudel), The History of the English Speaking
Peoples (Winston Churchill), Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez), Moby Dick, Snow
Country, and Thousand Cranes (Yasunari Kawabata), Belle du Seignor (Albert
Cohen), Lolita, and Ada, and Speak, Memory (Nabokov), As a Man Grows Older,
and The Conscience of Zeno (Italo Svevo), Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell),
Crowds and Power (Elias Canetti), The Master and Margarita (Michail Bulgakov),
Chechov (short stories), Travesties (Tom Stoppard), The Jew of Malta, Dido
Queen of Carthage, and Tamerlane (Christopher Marlow), The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire (Gibbon), Weymouth Sands, and Wolf Solent, and The
Glastonbury Romance (John Cowper Powys), Autobiography (Leonard Woolf), Forty
Days of Musa Dagh (Franz Werfel), Barsetshire Chronicles and Pallisers (Trollope),
Thomas Hardy (all), Joseph Conrad (all), Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the
Plague Year (DeFoe), The Jungle Novels (B. Traven), The Ordeal of Richard
Feveral, and The Egoist (Meredith), Jane Austen, Faulkner, The White Devil,
and the Dutchess of Malfi (John Webster), Green Mansions, and Idle Days in
Patagonia, and The Naturalist in La Plata (W.H. Hudson), The Jewish War
(Josephus), The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan), Renoir My Father (Jean
Renoir), Poems, Emily Dickinson, On the Shoulders of Giants, A Shandian
Postscript (Robert K. Merton)
Quote:"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it
prosper, none dare call it treason." Sir John Harington (1561-1612),
Epigrams. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." King
Henry VI, Part II
Carey Horwitz
occupation: Communications Counsel
Club Selections: Barchester Towers, The Power and the Glory
Favorite Books: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Last of the Just,
The Stars My Destination
Quote: [Chicago is a city with] "...muscles on its
back, sex in its pocket, and hot eats around the corner." -- Norman
Mailer, (from "Miami and the Siege of Chicago")
Bob James
occupation: Freight Transportation Business
Planner/Policy Analyst, Port-Commerce Dept., Port Authority of NY/NJ.
Club Selections: The Shipping News, 100 Years of Solitude, Moby Dick
Favorite Books: The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicles (Murakami), Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), The Story of Mankind
(Van Loon)
Quote: "I have total irreverence for Anything connected with
society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food
cheaper and old men and women warmer in the winter and happier in
summer." -- Brendan Behan. "We are confronted with an
insurmountable opportunity" -- Walter Kelly (from the comicstrip
character Pogo). "Oh Lord, grant me chastity but not now!"
--St. Augustine.
occupation: psychology research
Club Selections: Texaco
Favorite Books: Anna Karinina (classic), Vineland (pop Pynchon), Prozac Nation (fun w/depression)
Quote: "See the sun/Touch the waves of the earth/Feel the grass
softly/And don't think for the one/Who we know, we are" --Ween
Denny Kearns
occupation: ??
Club Selections: The Theban Plays
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Lynn Kressel
occupation: ??
Club Selections: Mill on the Floss, Pride and Prejudice
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Mario Ligorio
occupation: ??
Club Selections: Meditations, Elmer Gantry, Lolita, Dr. Zhivago, Letters of VincentVan Gogh
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Becky Petraccaro
occupation: ??
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Larry Petraccaro
occupation: engineer
Club Selections: Nostromo, My Antonia, Lord Jim, Kim
Favorite Books: The Once and Future King (T.H. White), Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), My Antonia (Cather)
Quote: "Call me Ishmael..." -Melville ( from "Moby
Dick"). To
me it defines the mythic character of the USA. Like any myth there is an
element of truth. It is hard to say if the comment led to this character or
the other way around. It is a point of demarcation between the old world and
the new. There is no need to be someone rooted in the past or fixed by family
or geography. Ishmael may or may not be his real name but no one cares and he
is able to make of himself what he will – for better or for worse. The past
is not an impediment to the future; we can create what we will. That quote
encapsulates the entire American experience.
Jon Riecke
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Stan Schneider
occupation: Music Industry Lawyer
Club Selections: House of Mirth, Sister Carrie, All the Kings' Men, Point of No Return, Gravity's Rainbow
Favorite Books: Trollope, particularly the Pallisers;Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again; Kesey, Sometimes aGreat Notion; Jane Austen; Penn Warren, All the Kings'Men; Wharton, House of Mirth; Dickens; HarrisonSalisbury, 900 Days and Black Night/White Snow;Galsworthy, Forsyte Saga, Modern Comedy, End of theChapter
Quote: You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but you can never take the Brooklyn out of the boy--attributed to spouse
Ken Wasserman
occupation: ??
Club Selections: Madame Bovary, Magic Mountain, Stanger/Plague/Sisyphus, Anna Karinina
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Patricia Zedalis
occupation: ??
Club Selections: Wise Blood, Independent People
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Ethan Wolfe
occupation: ??
Club Selections: Tropic of Cancer, Giovanni's Room, Alice in Wonderland, What Makes Sammy Run,
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