Friends of the Alva Public Library will host Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma’s program “The Gilded Age” at five events from Sept. 18 through Nov. 20. The event is made possible by a grant from Oklahoma Humanities with generous funding from the Inasmuch Foundation and the Kirkpatrick Family Fund.

Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma is a program that brings readers and humanities scholars together to discuss works of literature about a specific theme. “The Gilded Age” will include novels written between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. Professor Dawn Allen will introduce Mark T...