Literary Roundtable on November 16: Choice and Consequences, Time Travel

On November 16 at 6 pm in the Chapel, our hosts will lead a discussion about choice and consequences and time travel in "This Time Tomorrow" and "Dead Men's Path."

Books: This Time Tomorrow (Emma Straub) and "Dead Men's Path" (Chinua Achebe, Girls at War and Other Stories)

Hosts:

• Joanna Grisham is an instructor in the Department of Languages & Literature at APSU. Joey holds an MFA in creative writing from Georgia College. She was named a finalist for the 2021-2022 Very Short Fiction Contest at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival and a finalist for the 2021 Ember Chasm Review Flash Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Gleam, The Emerson Review, On the Run, The Write Launch, Construction Literary Magazine, and other places. Her first chapbook of poems, Phantoms, is forthcoming in 2023 from Finishing Line Press.
• Gregory Glover is pastor at First Presbyterian Church. Greg holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and is an avid reader.

Discussion Themes: Choice and Consequences, Time Travel

1) Are notions of time travel useful as heuristic devices for self-examination and life-course evaluation?

2) Is it possible to live an examined life--to live fully--with "no regrets"?

3) Are there life paths that should be foreclosed and not explored (ever, under any circumstances)? Why or why not? Is tradition (or religion) a reliable guide to the good path or a constraint on finding better paths?

4) What gives with "midlife"? (And when do you stop "celebrating" birthdays?)

5) What's with the cat?

6) Do you want a "do over" or two or six?