B14. Celebrating Worcester Authors

We will read three very different books, all by Worcester authors, which reflect the diversity of the Worcester community.  Part Yankee [not those Yankees], part immigrant, part Irish Catholic and part academic, Worcester is a unique city which often feels like a small town. Perhaps you live in your grandparents’ house.  Or maybe you never left after coming to study at Clark or Holy Cross or WPI or Assumption University??? 

The WAM, The WooSox and the Ecotarium are just a few of Worcester’s hidden gems as are native sons like Abbie Hoffman and Stanley Kunitz. Carol Goodman Kaufman raised her family here. We’ll get to know these writers and explore more of literary Worcester in the process.

Required Readings

Steal This Book , Abbie Hoffman , ISBN978-0-306-84717-2

The Wild Braid, Stanley Kunitz , ISBN 978-0-393-32997-1

The First Murder, Carol Goodman Kaufman, ISBN 978-1956851755                

Marcia Tannenbaum, B.A. and M.A. Simmons University, English Language and Literature 1967, 1969 Juris Doctor, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1980.  Marcia moved to Worcester in the summer of 1992 and has practiced Family Law and Mediation here for 30 years.  She is a longterm WISE Instructor; was an adjunct professor at Nichols College for 10 years and at the Univ. of Hartford before leaving Connecticut.