The bell hooks Book Club will have its next monthly gathering at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, in the bell hooks Legacy Room at the Pennyroyal Area Museum, 217 E. Ninth St.
The book club is an informal group open to anyone interested in learning more about Hopkinsville native bell hooks, who was a prolific writer, cultural critic and feminist icon. She was born Gloria Jean Watkins on Sept. 25, 1952, and took the pen name, bell hooks, in tribute to her great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.
The group has been discussing bell hooks’ 2000 book, “All About Love: New Visions.” The February meeting will focus on Chapter 12, “Healing: Redemptive Love.”
Hoptown Chronicle will provide refreshments for the meeting.
“All About Love’ is available in The Vault by Planters Bank Museum Shop, online through the museum’s Shopify store, to check out from the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library, or from most booksellers.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
