Summer Reading Requirement
Each year, Wentworth requires all incoming students to participate in a shared reading experience. The purpose of this assignment is two-fold:
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First, when you arrive on campus this fall for Wentworth Opening Week, you and all your new classmates will have something in common. You will have shared your first academic experience.
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The second purpose of the assignment is to prepare you for the college-level environment. During opening week, you will have your first opportunity to discuss the summer reading book. Then, when you begin classes you may discuss and write about this book.
Summer Reading for 2012
The Summer Reading Committee chose Aleksandar Hemon's collection of short stories, Love and Obstacles, as the summer text for the fall semester of 2012.
Hemon will be in Tansey Gym at 5:00PM on Thursday, October 4, 2012, to address the entire first-year class. He will read from his short story collection and take questions. The summer reading initiative is an ongoing project that unites our freshman class and underscores the importance of reading for every college student here at Wentworth.
About the Author
"Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man; and Love and Obstacles. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter months. While he was there, Sarajevo became under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter." (aleksandarhemon.com)
For more information on the author, visit http://www.aleksandarhemon.com/.
For questions regarding the summer reading, please contact Elaine Mom at mome@wit.edu or (617) 989-4293.
Past Summer Reading Selections
- 2011 - Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- 2010 - Dennis Lehane's Mystic River
- 2009 - Frederick Reiken's The Odd Sea
- 2008 - Andre Dubus III's House of Sand and Fog
- 2007 - Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
