Today I participated in a nation-wide conversation about George Orwell’s 1984. This week participants from around the country are gathering to discuss this classic book. This is part of “One book, Many Conversations (manyconversations.org), held October 9-15, 2017. The one I attended was at the Maine Charitable Mechanics Association (on Congress Street in Portland, Maine). Other locations in Portland include The Maine Women Writers Collection (University of New England) and Maine College of Art Library. Can’t make it to a live discussion group? You can participate online!

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Together we will delve into 1984, a book that raises questions that are at the core of living in a democracy, including the nature of citizenship, the sources of power, and what it takes to be a leader, to be courageous and to love another human being. These themes are broad, common to the human experience, and cross all partisan boundaries.