The Big Read, which “provides communities nationwide with the opportunity to read, discuss, and celebrate one of 31 selections from U.S. and world literature,” kicks off on February 29 at 8:30 a.m. at the Tarrant Area Food Bank, located at 2600 Cullen Street in Fort Worth.
Ongoing throughout the month of May, the Big Read will feature events sponsored by community partners that are designed to promote the reading of the selected book. In Fort Worth, the big read book is The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, which paints the story of the Joad family, traveling to California in the Great Depression, hoping for a better life.
Two events are taking place in Fort Worth Libraries:
The Jim Lee Book Club will lead a discussion of The Grapes of Wrath on Tuesday, March 6, at the Southwest Regional Library, starting at 6:30 p.m. Pre-registration is not necessary; all you need to do is read the book and show up, ready to talk! For more information about this event, call 817-392-5860. The Southwest Regional Library is located at 4001 Library Ln.
A screening of the 1940 film version of The Grapes of Wrath is being presented on Sunday, March 11 at 2 p.m. at the Tandy Lecture Hall in the Central Library. Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and John Carradine bring the Joads to life in this Academy Award-winning adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The Central Library is located at 500 W. Third St.
A third event, a luncheon on March 22, is being hosted by the Friends of the Fort Worth Library.
For more information about The Big Read, or for a complete list of events, go to the Texas Wesleyan University website.
If you read The Grapes of Wrath now’s the time to read it again; if you’ve never read it, what better time than when people across the city are, too?
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