Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Nightlighters
Monday, 6:00 pm EDT June 12, 2023
Due to popular demand for a members-only free reading group in the evenings, we’re bringing you The Nightlighters!
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Groups+Workshops
Chekhov's "The Black Monk" and a Cocktail with Elizabeth Howard
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 14, 2023
Chekhov’s novella portrays a young man suffering from delusions of grandeur—evoking the supernatural, speculative fiction, and futurism—and...
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Groups+Workshops
Decolonizing Science Fiction and Fantasy with Ana Klimchynskaya
Four Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 19 to August 7, 2023
Explore two recent sci-fi and fantasy novels that flip the traditional imperialist narrative of the Other, taking on the perspective of the outsider...
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Groups+Workshops
An Untamed Existence: Women Alone and Adrift in the Wild with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 20 to September 12, 2023
Read the surprising accounts of three women in various states of isolation, communing with the natural world in search of sustenance, companionship...
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT June 21, 2023
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Adventure Stories: An Iris Murdoch Survey with Chantal V. Johnson
Four Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 26 to September 11, 2023
Iris Murdoch was a protean figure: a serious thinker invested in the madcap possibilities of the comic novel, an imposing moralist known for her...
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Groups+Workshops
Edith Wharton’s Great New York Novels with Pam Newton
Three Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 27 to August 22, 2023
Edith Wharton chronicled the fashionable world of upper-crust New York City society and, with her keen eye and sharp pen, exposed the striving...
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Groups+Workshops
Novels Based on Shakespeare's Plays with Donna Raskin
Three Sessions Fridays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 30 to August 18, 2023
Enjoy three novels based on Shakespeare comedies—you don’t have to have seen or read the plays, but you will gain some knowledge of Shakespeare...
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Groups+Workshops
Lolita with Nicola Maye Goldberg
Once a week Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT July 16 to August 6, 2023
Sixty-eight years after its original publication, Lolita remains one the most controversial novels ever written. Unravel the difference...
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Groups+Workshops
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain with Kannan Mahadevan
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 26 to September 13, 2023
With its snowy Alpine setting and its cast of convalescents, The Magic Mountain has been called the ultimate winter read, but somehow...