Reading Groups & Writing Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying with Elizabeth Howard
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 4 to October 25, 2023
An experiment in modernism, with its innovative use of multiple voices exploring themes of cultural alienation, As I Lay Dying remains...
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Groups+Workshops
Good Moms, Bad Moms: Mothers in Contemporary French Autobiographies with Lise Schreier
Five Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 5 to December 21, 2023
Mothers are central characters in many artists’ emotional and creative landscapes. Explore how five French authors have expressed their overpowering...
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Groups+Workshops
Belief and Doubt: The Novels of Graham Greene (and One by John le Carré) with Dennis Krieger
Five Sessions 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 5 to January 18, 2023
Graham Greene traverses the polarities between which his characters exist and struggle: Belief and Doubt; Sin and Redemption; and Loyalty and Betrayal
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Family Stories and Family Histories with Eraldo Souza dos Santos
Friday—Sunday October 6 to October 8, 2023
Explore how writers from different historical periods and traditions wrote about their families—and how we can do so today, finding inspiration...
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An Introduction to Comics with Sofia Warren
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT October 7 to October 8, 2023
Delve into the world of comics by drawing self-portraits, monsters, and more to become more confident in your ability to communicate graphically.
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Groups+Workshops
What's Italian? Collodi's Pinocchio and De Amicis’s Heart with Antonio Romani
Once a week Saturdays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT October 7 to October 28, 2023
Pinocchio and Heart were written in an overt attempt to build a collective identity after Italy’s unification in 1860
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Groups+Workshops
Revising the College Essay with Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT October 7, 2023
This interactive workshop, held in person at The Center for Fiction, is a mixture of group exercises and tailored feedback
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Groups+Workshops
Genre/Gender-Bending Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy with Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Three Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 9 to November 20, 2023
From epic fantasy to aliens running a donut shop in California, Asian diasporic authors take readers on a wild ride that ends with a deeper knowledge...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Powerful, Characterizing Dialogue in Fiction with Joanna Cantor
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT October 11 to November 15, 2023
Analyze peer work and assigned readings for techniques on writing compelling dialogue, and implement these techniques in your own work with writing prompts.
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Groups+Workshops
Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling with Rebecca Rukeyser
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 11 to December 13, 2023
The History of Tom Jones is bawdy, odd, and deeply funny, and one of the first depictions in English fiction of “a real man” who...
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