Aaron Donachuk of U of T (aaron.donachuk@mail.utoronto.ca) and Zubin Meer of York University (zubinmeer@yahoo.com) have organized a new, joint-university reading group! The Novel Theory Group aims to meet roughly once a month to discuss an instance of “novel theory” broadly defined. They have already looked at Lukacs’s Theory of the Novel and plan to tackle next Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg’s The Nature of Narrative. Future contenders may include: Auerbach’s Mimesis, Bakhtin’s Dialogic Imagination, Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism, Goldmann’s Towards a Sociology of the Novel, Hagg’s The Novel in Antiquity, Iser’s The Implied Reader, McKeon’s Origins of the English Novel, Moretti’s Way of the World, or Watt’s Rise of the Novel. If you’re interested in joining, contact either Aaron or Zubin.