Reading & Discussion Grants Awarded in 2009
Center for the Arts of Homer
Homer, Cortland County
Awarded $1,000 for Women at Work in America: Revolutionary War to Present Day
Scholar: Margaret Perfetti
A program addressing various fiction and nonfiction titles that represent women's changing role during key historical periods to gain an understanding of how women have arrived at their current place in the working world.
The Other Civil War, Catherine Clinton
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
Slacks and Calluses, Constance Bowman Reid
Rosie's Daughters, Matilda Butler
The Masculine Mystique, Andrew Kimbrell
JCC on the Hudson
Tarrytown, Westchester County
Awarded $1,000 for Revisiting the Yiddish World
Scholar: Mara Mills
A program exploring the place of Yiddish culture in history and examining past and present Yiddish literature.
A Day of Pleasure and The Shot at Sarajevo, I.B. Singer
The Sausage, Sol Braun
Teyve Strikes It Rich, Sholem Aleichem
My Mother's Dream, Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn
First Days in America, I. Kopeloff
A Yiddish World Remembered, film by Andrew Goldberg
The Loudest Voice, Grace Paley
At a Picnic, Miriam Raskin
The Four Questions, Allegra Goodman
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander
New City Free Library
New City, Rockland County
Awarded $981 for People of the Hudson Valley
Scholar: Dr. Sherrill Wilson
A program exploring the ongoing history of the Hudson Valley and its significant contribution to the country's development.
Rockland County New York the in 1790s, Jacquetta Haley
A Family Place, Leila Philip
Hudson Valley Faces and Places, Patricia Edwards Clyne
Long-Hammering, A.J. Williams-Myers
William B. Ogden Free Library
Walton, Delaware County
Awarded $1,000 for The Modern Short Story
Scholar: Sharon Ruetenik
A program on themes of illusion, regret, betrayal and transformation in short stories of the early twentieth century to the present.
Sun and The Horse Dealer's Daughter, DH Lawrence
The Garden Party and Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield
A Bit on the Side, Solitude, and Sitting with the Dead, William Trevor
In the Blink of God's Eye and Tapestry, Edward Jones
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers
Delicate Edible Birds and L. DeBard and Aliette, Laura Goff
A Small Good Thing, Raymond Carver
Kubuku Rides, Larry Brown
The Red Convertible, Louise Erdrich
A Tiny Feast, Chris Adrian
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
Port Washington Public Library
Port Washington, Nassau County
Awarded $800 for Pulitzer Prize-Winning New Yorkers
Scholar: Dr. Peter West
A program of books written by four Pulitzer-prize winning authors who came from other places to live and work in New York, referencing Joseph Pulitzer's own life and the immigrant experience.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, Stacy Schiff
Eden's Outcasts, John Matteson
Stone Ridge Library
Stone Ridge, Ulster County
Awarded $800 for Coping With American Identity: Four Viewpoints
Scholar: Joseph Keefe
A program exploring American identity as expressed from four particular cultural perspectives.
Desirable Daughters, Barati Mukherjee
Typical American, Gish Jen
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
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