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Read It & Eat Book Club

Thunderclap by Laura Cumming

2025-08-07 18:30:00 2025-08-07 20:00:00 America/Chicago Read It & Eat Book Club We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Urban Cookhouse in Homewood. Food not provided by the library, but participants are encouraged to order beverages/food. Homewood Public Library -

Thursday, August 07
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-08-07 18:30:00 2025-08-07 20:00:00 America/Chicago Read It & Eat Book Club We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Urban Cookhouse in Homewood. Food not provided by the library, but participants are encouraged to order beverages/food. Homewood Public Library -

We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Urban Cookhouse in Homewood. Food not provided by the library, but participants are encouraged to order beverages/food.

Join us as we discuss brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming’s Thunderclap. The book explores the importance of art in life and can give us a perspective on the time and place in which the artist worked. Now, through the lens of one dramatic event in 17th-century Holland, Cumming has fashioned a book that combines memoir, art criticism, and history to illuminating effect. 

In 1654, the Thunderclap—an enormous explosion at a gunpowder store—devasted the city of Delft, killing hundreds of people, including the extraordinary painter Carel Fabritius, and injuring thousands more. Framing the story around the life of Fabritius, Cumming illuminates this extraordinary moment in art history while also writing about her own father, a painter. Like Dutch art, the story gradually links country, city, town, street, house, interior—all the way to the bird on its perch, the blue and white tile, the smallest seed in a loaf of bread. The impact of a painting and how it can enter our thoughts, influence our view and understanding of the world is the heart of this book.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Groups | Arts & Lit | Adult Events |

TAGS: | Book Group | Art & Painting | Adults |

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