What A Page-Turner

Missing your in-person book club discussions? 

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach has a solution for that. And it’s not an app.

Readers can join the first virtual Kravis Book Club, where they’ll explore award-winning novels via Zoom with writer and teacher Julie Gilbert, who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and heads up the center’s Writers’ Academy. 

“Participants in the book club will discuss the intricacies of each novel and are encouraged to share their interpretations with Gilbert, who is a novelist, biographer, playwright and teacher,” notes a press release.

Gilbert adds: “I think everyone should have the opportunity to learn something new and broaden their artistic horizons. That is why I take immense pride in teaching people about my passions: fiction writing and playwriting.”

The Aug. 3 session – from 2-3:30 p.m. – features Finnish author Tove Jansson’s “The Summer Book,” a 1972 novel that explores the relationship between an elderly woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter during a summer together on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Finland.

Then, Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” will be discussed on Aug. 24 from 2-3:30 p.m. In the book, the best-selling author mourns the death of her husband, novelist John Gregory Dunne.  O

For more information, call 561-833-8300 or visit kravis.org.