Join Keep St. Pete Lit, a local organization that supports the literary community, for a book club connecting the visual and literary arts. Each month’s featured book will relate to the MFA’s collection or special exhibitions.

January 12: The Family Fang: A Novel by Kevin Wilson portrays a quirky dysfunctional family that blurs the lines between performance art and family relationships.

February 9: The American road trip has inspired writers, as well as photographers. Jane Lotter’s The Bette Davis Club follows the laugh-out-loud adventures of 50s-something Margo in her
cross-country search for her runaway bride niece.

March 9: Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical novel On the Road captures the Beat generation like no other and quickly became an American classic. Modern Library ranked it 55th on a list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century.

This program is presented by