Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EST - 1:30 pm EST February 15, 2023
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Reading the Russians II with Sheila Kohler
Five Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST February 20 to May 15, 2023
We will read three great stories by Chekhov who wrote at the end of the nineteenth century, followed by Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev’s...
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Edna Ferber and Fannie Hurst: Significant 20th-Century Jewish Women Novelists with Donna Raskin
Four Sessions Fridays, 7:00 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST March 3 to June 2, 2023
Edna Ferber and Fannie Hurst were two of the most significant novelists of the 20th century and they were both Jewish women
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Beyond the Tropes: Speculative Characters with Marc L. Abbott
Four Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EST - 2:30 pm EST March 5 to June 4, 2023
This course we will be reading and discussing original stories with characters that have been established in movies and comics
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Herself, Destructed: Examining Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST March 7 to June 6, 2023
This course will examine the fiction and lives of three women united by their tendency to destroy their own work. In the 1960s, when she was nearing...
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Irish Educations with Philip Geheber
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST March 8 to May 31, 2023
How do we become ourselves? In what ways do influences beyond our control, like family, school, church, state, gender, and history, mold us into...
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Further Novels of Charles Dickens with Amanda Hollander
Six Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST March 9 to June 29, 2023
Another deep dive into the novels of Charles Dickens, this group will cover The Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, and David Copperfield
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Illuminating the Ordinary: Elizabeth Strout's Amgash Series with Katherine Montwieler
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST March 14 to May 16, 2023
We’ll read the four books in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash series: My Name is Lucy Barton; Anything Is Possible; Oh William!
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Roberto Bolaño's 2666: An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom with Samuel Rutter
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST March 15 to June 7, 2023
Originally published in Spanish, shortly after the author’s death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 is considered one of the greatest...
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NEA Big Read 2023: Identity Politics and the Asian American Writer with Elizabeth Joseph (Sold Out)
Three Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST March 21 to May 16, 2023
The dualities and intersectionalities of the Asian American identities derive from numerous inherited and inherent expectations