Nick Fuller Googins Reads the News

…READS THE NEWS is a new and recurring SPACE program where select community members publicly read a curated batch of news items, articles, historical passages, reviews, or other material before a live audience, with musical accompaniment.

This episode of …READS THE NEWS is hosted by writer and educator Nick Fuller Googins. The evening will feature musical accompaniment TBA.

SPACE’s …Reads the News program positions the humanities as essential tools for collective meaning-making in a moment of widespread information overload, political volatility, and reading burnout. At a time when the news is both difficult to engage with and impossible to ignore, …Reads the News shifts the practice of media consumption from the private to the public, allowing for historical context, new perspectives, and ethical reflection.

Reading lists will be shared and sourced at the event.

Nick Fuller Googins is the author of the novels, The Frequency of Living Things and The Great Transition. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Men’s Health, The Sun, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine, and works as an elementary school teacher. He is a member of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, as well as the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the United States.