Join Librarian BARBARA WENGLIN for our fall series using the exciting anthology, Stories of Fatherhood, ed. by Diana Secker Tesdell (Everyman's Pocket Classics, c2014). Dates for the series are Sept. 22, Oct. 13, Nov. 3, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Dec. 22, Jan 5, 2023, Jan 12 (film discussion). In varied settings and cultures, the collection gathers more than a century of timeless short stories about having, becoming, loving and losing fathers. A copy of the book is held on reserve at the Hub/Reference Desk for reading in the Library, with circulating copies on order, available soon. For this session, please read "The Writer in the Family" by award-winning author E. L. Doctorow. When his father dies suddenly, teenage Jonathan is enlisted by the family to keep the sad news from his elderly grandmother in a nursing home. Story also collected in Doctorow's Lives of the Poets through the catalog. The program is supported by the Friends of the Library.