Chic.lits
...fashionable friends of fine art, fine reading, and the Mercantile Library
In 2008 a group of book-loving women started the Chic.lits to support current literature events at the Mercantile Library. Many were already members of active, well-established book groups, so they were a perfect fit for the Merc. It was a stunning success. Now, the original Chic.lits are hoping you will join them as a sponsor of the library’s Modern Novel lecture series.
2012-2013 Chic.lits Cynthia Cole, Chair
Become a Sponsor and help the lIbrary bring in novelists of national stature!
If you join us you will receive…
- Free admission to the Modern Novel Lecture with Cathleen Schine (a $20 value!) on September 6th.and admission to a Chic.lits only reception with Cathleen before the Lecture.
- recognition as a sponsor on the Mercantile Library website and in Modern Novel Lecture program
- Free admission to additional Chic.lits events including three hosted book discussions throughout the year (a $40 value)
- Free admission to two screenings (July 12 and 19) of movies adapted from Jane Austen novels
Chic.lit Book Discussion
June 7th, 2012 (6:00PM)
Liz Glassmeyer Residence. 3 Twin Hills Ridge Drive, Cincinnati, 45230
Free to current Chic.lits; $10 for others.
Author and University of Cincinnati associate professor Leah Stewart will compare and contrast Cathleen Schine's The Three Weissmanns of Westport with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Leah Stewart is the author of three acclaimed novels: Body Of A Girl, The Myth of You and Me, and Husband and Wife. She is the recipient of a 2010 NEA Literature Fellowship and lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two children.
From Leah: "My favorite canonical books are Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, and Middlemarch. I reach Pride and Prejudice as a kid and have loved it ever since. Gatsby I failed to appreciate in high school, but in adulthood I've read it over and over. I didn't read Middlemarch until I was in my late twenties, due to an intense hatred of Silas Marner, which I also had to read in high school. By the way, my least favorite canonical book is The Grapes of Wrath, which I was assigned to read in high school, college, and graduate school. So I've had plenty of opportunity to shudder at that last scene."
Chic.lits charter member, Liz Glassmeyer, has graciously agreed to host us at her home. (3 Twin Hills Ridge Drive, 45230.)
Its' sure to be a lively and thought-provoking evening. Bring a friend to join in the fun! Please RSVP by June 5.
Please rsvp to chic.lits@mercantilelibrary or 513.621.0717.
The Modern Novel Lecture with Cathleen Schine
September 6th, 2012 (7:00PM)
Reading Room
Free with Chic.lit membership. $15 for Mercantile members; $20 for others
Cathleen Schine is a wonderfully funny and witty novelist who writes about love, families, and relationships of all sorts. Her literary influences include Dickens, Trollope, Austen, Pym, and Munro. She is the author of the internationally best-selling novels The Love Letter, Rameau’s Niece, Alice in Bed, She is Me, The New Yorkers and, most recently, The Three Weissmanns of Westport. In addition, she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Thanks to the Chic.lits for sponsoring the Modern Novel Lecture
Cynthia Cole, Chair
