Guttman’s 2022 Big Read is Cathy Park Hong’s essay collection, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Led by the Guttman Library and the CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellows, these engaging conversations will take place throughout the Spring I semester. Please join us for one or all! If you can’t meet in person,  you can also join the session live over Zoom: https://bit.ly/GrizzlyBigRead1.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 (5:30pm-7:00pm in Room 401): Chapter 3, “The End of White Innocence”

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 (5:30pm-7:00pm in Room 510): Chapter 4, “Bad English”

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (5:30pm-7:00pm in Room 401): Chapter 7, “The Indebted”

The Guttman Library also offers free copies of Hong’s book to all Guttman students, faculty, and staff. These free copies were made possible thanks to a humanities grant funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Library Association. The Guttman Library was one of 200 libraries that the NEH/ALA selected for this award!  Stop by the library’s circulation desk to get yours today!

The Big Read planning team includes: Ria Banerjee (Associate Professor of English, Stella & Charles Guttman Community College), Meagan Lacy (Chief Librarian, Stella & Charles Guttman Community College), and CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellows Greg Hartmann, Xiaomeng Ma, Rosalía Reyes Simon and Sok Svay.