New year—no time like the present to up your literacy quotient. UTC offers a wonderful opportunity to do just that with the return of its popular “Take Five Literary Series.” This time round, the focus is on “Appalachian Literarture,” and the series kicks off with a session on Wendell Berry’s 2004 novel, “Hannah Coulter.”
As Amazon describes the book, “‘Ignorant boys, killing each other,’ is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her seventies, Nathan’s wife, Hannah, has time now to tell of the years since the war. In Wendell Berry’s unforgettable prose, we learn of the Coulter’s children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors ‘live right on.’”
Berry is a treasure of Southern writing, and if you haven’t discovered him, this free program at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 7 is the perfect time. Chattanooga Room, University Center, UTC. Information: verbie-prevost@utc.edu