New Yorker Discussion Groups
To participate you need to have access to the contents of The New Yorker magazine. Issues can be read or checked out at these branches of the Santa Cruz Public Library: Aptos, Boulder Creek, Branciforte, Scotts Valley, Central, Live Oak, Capitola.
Open/closed status subject to change.
New Yorker Discussion Group (Santa Cruz I)
Group members are interested in reading literature as well as in analyzing the techniques that authors and poets use to communicate their ideas. Our discussions of poetry, short stories, and occasional essays related to literature also shed light on our differing viewpoints and how those viewpoints have been shaped by our life experiences.The group meets monthly at 2 p.m. on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from September through June.
Discussion Leader: Dena Taylor, 831-462-5548, denataylor22@gmail.com
New Yorker Discussion Group (Santa Cruz II)
Group members are interested in reading literature as well as in analyzing the techniques that authors and poets use to communicate their ideas. Our discussions of poetry, short stories, and occasional essays related to literature also shed light on our differing viewpoints and how those viewpoints have been shaped by our life experiences.
The group meets monthly at 2 p.m. on the 2nd Thursday of the month from September through June.
Discussion Leader: Helen Jones, 831-420-1220, helenjones815@gmail.com
New Yorker Capitola Discussion Group (Dominican Oaks)
The group discusses fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from recent New Yorker magazines.
The group meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1:30 p.m. using Zoom.
Discussion Leader: Barbara Banducci, 831-234-7906, bbanducci43@yahoo.com
New Yorker San Lorenzo Valley
The group discusses fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from recent New Yorker magazines.
The group meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 3:00 to 4:30p.m. using Zoom.
Discussion Leader: Rhea Giroux, 831-345-6824, rrmg@aol.com
New Yorker Discussion Group (Aptos) On Hiatus
This Interest Group is on Hiatus
Currently full, like most New Yorker groups. But you can ask to be on a waiting list. Or start up another New Yorker discussion group yourself, there is no limit to New Yorker groups at OLLI.
The group discusses fiction, non-fiction, poetry and cartoons from recent New Yorker magazines. Members take turns leading the discussions. The group meets every other Thursday (except as noted on the on-line OLLI Events Calendar) from 2 to 4 p.m. year-round.
Group Leader: Joan Rose, 831-477-0360, ramblingroses@yahoo.com
To Participate in the Peer-Led Interest Group Program
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