Academic First Year Experiences

The Postmortal: A Novel by Drew Magary: Faculty/Staff Book Groups and CSUN's 2014-2015 Freshman Common Reading

June 30, 2014

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The Freshman Common Reading Selection Committee has voted and we have a winner: The Postmortal: A Novel by Drew Magary (365 pages; 2011). Nominated by Kimberly Embleton and written in the form of a blog, The Postmortal takes place in a not-too-distant future when the cure for aging has been discovered. The cure doesn’t confer immortality; it just stops the aging process. The book raises moral and ethical questions about overpopulation, mortality, the environment, families, birth, marriage, death, interpersonal relationships, income inequality, and the role of government in the lives of the governed.

Faculty/staff book groups: join other CSUN colleagues for a one-hour discussion of the book this spring. Get your own free copy (CSUN faculty and staff only) in exchange for talking about the book with one or more new CSUN freshmen next fall.

Nominations are now open for 2015-2016. Take a look at the selection criteria before you suggest a book. (Read more about the selection process...)