Reading and Discussion
Exploring Ideas through BooksJim Schley
Jim Schley has been leading book discussion groups for twenty years and has taught for Community College of Vermont and The Frost Place, where he was executive director. At Dartmouth College he majored in Literature and Creative Writing and minored in Native American Studies, and he has an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
He has been co-editor of the literary quarterly New England Review and a book editor for University Press of New England, Chelsea Green, and Tupelo Press. He is an associate of the journalists’ collective Homeland Productions and a contributor to Seven Days and Northern Woodlands. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, One Another (Chapiteau, 1999) and a full-length book of poems, As When, In Season (Marick, 2008), and he lives with his family in South Strafford.
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Series Led by Jim Schley
- (Re)introducing Classical Greece
- 20th Century Jewish Lives
- A Hard Look at America
- A Mysterious Lens on American Culture
- African American Experience: Memoirs and Essays
- African American Experience: South to North
- African American Experience: The Harlem Renaissance
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- American Stories Across the Generations
- B.I.G. (Big, Intense, Good)
- Based on a Real Life
- Booker Prize Winners
- Border Crossings
- Canadian Cultural Diversity
- DCF Children’s Book Award
- Earth Tones
- Eight Great Greek Tragedies
- Exploring Graphic Novels
- Family History
- Farms and Gardens
- Fleeing Dictatorship: Migration Stories of Cuban and Dominican Families
- Forces of Nature
- From Page to Screen
- Futures: Utopia and Apocalypse
- Get Real
- Healthcare and Humanity
- International Migrations
- Legacy of Racism
- Masters of the Short Story
- Memorable Memoirs: Take Two
- Mexican Americans: Experience and Identity
- Native America
- Native American Literature
- New England Uncovered
- Pilgrimage
- Poems to Share
- Pulitzer Plays
- Required Reading
- Retellings
- Revenge
- Robert Frost’s Life and Writing
- Seminal Statements of American Values
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Shakespeare Mix & Match
- Soldiering On: After Battle and Back Home
- Sustainability
- The March Trilogy
- The Changing South
- The Genius of Mark Twain
- The Rise of Nazism
- The Rise of the English Novel
- The Romantic Ideal
- The Ties that Bind: Take Two
- Understanding Post-Colonial Africa
- Vermont Reads Past Picks
- What a Character!
- When Cultures Meet: First Contact in the Lake Champlain Basin
- Women’s Literature: Dual Heritages
- World War II: The Loss of the Age of Innocence