With the Spokane Jewish Film Festival continuing tonight and Monday at Gonzaga Law School, it would seem a natural fit to continue with the Spokane Public Library’s Jewish Literature Reading and Discussion Series, which resumes Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the South Hill Branch, 3324 S. Perry St.

The ongoing reading series, which continues through January, focuses this time on Polish-born memoirist Anzia Yezierska and her book “Bread Givers.”

“Through profuse and perceptive dialogue, Anzia Yezierska brings to life a heritage whose strength, wisdom, and idiom continue, 70 years later, to enrich North American culture and language,” wrote Jesse Larsen in “500 Great Books by Women.”

Patricia Terry, a literature professor and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University, will lead the discussion. For more information, call (509) 444-5386.

For more information about the Jewish Film Festival, call (509) 747-7394.

A fire ran through it

You’d think that with Norman Maclean’s 1993 nonfiction book “Young Men and Fire,” there would be nothing more to say about the 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana.

But Missoula author Mark Matthews has come up with his own take on the disaster, which took the lives of 13 smokejumpers. The result: “A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949” (University of Oklahoma Press, 264 pages, $24.95).

Matthews will read from his book at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Auntie’s Bookstore.

“(T)he stories are real, the people are real, and the sense of looming tragedy is almost palpable,” wrote a reviewer for the literary review journal Booklist. “A very welcome addition to the literature of firefighting and an excellent companion piece to Maclean’s more famous (and more stylishly written) book.”

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.

Book talk

“Jewish Literature Reading and Discussion Series (“Bread Givers,” by Anzia Yezierska), 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, South Hill Branch, Spokane Public Library, 3324 S. Perry St.

“Spokane Writers and Self-Publishers, meeting, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Old Country Buffet, 5504 N. Division St. Speaker: Linda Bond of Auntie’s Bookstore. Call (509) 233-8051.

“”Secret” Book Discussion Group (“The Secret,” by Rhonda Byrne), 5 p.m. Saturday, Valley Barnes & Noble, 15310 E. Indiana Ave. Call (509) 922-4104.

The reader board

“Terrance MacMullan, Kevin S. Decker (“The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News”), reading/video presentation, 3 p.m. Tuesday, Pence Union Building, Room 206, Eastern Washington University, Cheney. Call (509) 359-6503.

“Mark Matthews (“A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949”), reading, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Auntie’s Bookstore, Main and Washington. Call (509) 838-0206.

“Glen Mason (“The Arts and Crafts Movement of the Pacific Northwest”), slide-show presentation, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Auntie’s Bookstore.