BLASt Meeting, January 22, 6:30 p.m., 202A

BLASt (Book Lovers Among Students)

"Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a blackboard bolted to it. (...) Rabbit Angstrom, coming up the alley in a business suit, stops and watches, though he's twenty-six and six three. So tall, he seems an unlikely rabbit, but the breadth of white face, the pallor of his blue irises, and a nervous flutter under his brief nose as he stabs a cigarette into his mouth partially explain the nickname, which was given to him when he too was a boy." (from Rabbit, Run)

"A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control." - Kansas City Star

"Brilliant and poignant... By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own." - The Washington Post

BLAST is a student section of the American Literature Reading Club. The meetings are hosted by and addressed to students. If you like literature - join us!