Reading Groups

Reading Around the World with Archipelago Books and Morley Musick

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3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 28 to March 11, 2025

Online via Zoom

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The ‘With Books’ option includes the titles required for this group at a 10% discount from our Bookstore.

Meeting Dates:
1/28, 2/18, 3/11
Online via Zoom

Our “Reading Around the World” discussion group in partnership with Archipelago Books offers participants a sampling of narrative forms from one of the most exciting publishers of world literature. The group will guide adventurous readers through work by three novelists, working across three different times and three different places:

  • The Gate of the Sun by the late, great Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury. This book has been called “the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga.”
  • Canoes by acclaimed contemporary French novelist Maylis de Kerangal. This collection includes a series of riveting tales on “tones, molds of human jaws, voicemail recordings, sonic waves, UFOs” spun off from a central novella.
  • Eline Vere, a Madame Bovary in the Hague, by Louis Couperus, the “greatest Dutch novelist of his generation.”

This discussion group welcomes readers itching to transcend their current time and place, seekers of beauty and singular voice, and, of course, Archipelago fans.

What to read before the first meeting: Please read Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury in its entirety.

What to expect from this reading group: This is a conversational, participant-driven course featuring an introduction to the text from the facilitator.

Book List:

Capacity: 20

Please note: All virtual classes are recorded. Please click here for information about our recording policy.

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Led by

  • Morley Musick

    Morley Musick

    Morley Musick

    Morley Musick is the founder of the international literary magazine Mouse and a city life columnist for n+1 magazine.

About this series

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Whether you’re looking to catch up on great novels or you’re interested in exploring a new writer or literary period, our reading groups offer high-level literary discussion led by experts in the field.

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