BOOKS & COFFEE

The next meeting of "Books & Coffee" will be held as originally scheduled on
Tuesday, November 27, at 7:30 PM. The venue, however, has had to be changed,
due to the abrupt and unexpected closing of the Urban Art Institute on
Market Street. Instead, on this particular occasion, we will hold "Books &
Coffee" in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall on the UTC campus.

We may need the extra space anyway, because we are pleased to announce that
this month our guest speaker is John Wilson, nationally renowned literary
critic and founding editor of the distinguished journal of ideas, BOOKS &
CULTURE. Wilson will be discussing historian Michael Bellesiles's intensely
controversial book, ARMING AMERICA: THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL GUN CULTURE, a
work that has become a cause celebre in the popular press, and the object of
fierce debate in scholarly circles. Wilson, who was himself one of the
book's early reviewers, will try to make sense of the controversies that
continue to swirl around the book's reception, and assess where the book's
findings and its author's credibility now stand, as the charges and
countercharges continue to fly. It should make for a very lively evening.

"Books & Coffee" is cosponsored by the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in
Humanities at UTC and Covenant College. As always, the event is free---and
so is the coffee! But, to repeat again, the venue this month will be the
Roland Hayes Concert Hall at the Fine Arts Building on the UTC campus, at
the corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets. We hope to see you there, at 7:30
PM on Tuesday, November 27th.