Food for Thought Book Discussion

Lit Youngstown’s Food for Thought book discussion group will meet at 5:30pm the second Thursday of each month at Noble Creature Wild Ales & Lagers. The series, sponsored by the Raymond J. Wean Foundation, will run September 2025 through May 2026.

This year’s titles include a script for the stage, a memoir by a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, science fiction, novels by an Iranian immigrant and Native American writers, and a book about the changing journalism landscape that includes a chapter on the Youngstown Vindicator.

They include:

October (journalism) Ghosting the News by Margaret Sullivan

November (graphic memoir) Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

December (drama) Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl

January (speculative fiction) Bewilderment by Richard Powers

February (memoir) There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

March (novel) Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

April (novel) Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling

May (novel) State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Lit Youngstown is a literary arts nonprofit with programs for writers, readers, and those who love a good story. More information is available at www.LitYoungstown.org.