Book Club The English-language Book Club deals with the creative process of writing and the creation of a literary work. How does an author interpret and judge his own work? How does the reader judge it? In order to discuss these questions in more detail, the participants of the Book Club watch interviews with authors about their books together, thus approaching the respective topics, discussing them together and improving their English at the same time. The Book Club meets every second Friday of the month at 6:30 pm at the DAI. Book Club facilitator: Dr. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung is a recently retired Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and faculty member of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. Among her publications are the co-edited volumes EmBODYing Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance; Sleuthing Ethnicity: The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction; Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration and Vampires and Zombies: Transnational Transformations. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of African and Native American literature and culture, with an emphasis on dance and performance studies. Between 1998 and 2012, she was a founding member and executive officer of MESEA, The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas. Since 2004, she has been founding co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, Routledge U.K. The meetings are free of charge and do not require registration. However, regular participation requires membership in the Friends of the DAI Heidelberg e. V. At the next meetings, these books will be discusses: January 14 Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah February 11 Apeirogon by Colum McCann March 11 Hinterland by Caroline Brothers April 08 How to Be Both by Ali Smith May 13 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong June 10 The Promise by Damon Galgut July 08 Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah All books are available in the library. The Book Club meets in person in the library, observing the usual safety rules. For more details, please e-mail us at library@dai-heidelberg.de. We’re looking forward to meeting you! The DAI library team