Willa Cather audio chatcast Aug. 24

From Tom Peters--on an audio chatcast sponsored by the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center:

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time:

The Meting of the Minds Online Book Discussion Group will be discussing the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather. A lawyer recalls his Nebraska boyhood and the girl who was a strong influence on his life in this novel about pioneering conditions and the assimilation of the immigrant. (RC 13491 and BR 11320) (2 cassettes). For your information, various digital versions of the novel are available at Blackmask.com. An online version in HTML format also is available from the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial in Red Cloud, Nebraska. An online scholarly edition is available from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

When you click on the MITBC's audio chat page, you'll download a small, safe program if you haven't participated in a chat before. You'l also need a computer with a sound card, as a well as microphone if you want to ask questions by voice rather than keyboard.

For more details on Willa Cather, see My Antonia chatcast is a 'must' for Gatsby lovers--and the Cather book is free online--a post in the TeleRead Web log. Elsewhere you can even hear a sound recording of Cather. While the audio quality is not the best, she is understandable in most places.