Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
Reading the Queer Body: Desire, Trauma, and Transformation with Thomas Dooley (Online Only)
4 Monthly Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 22 to December 22, 2021
A vessel. A machine. A cage. A temple. Our bodies are more than just blood and guts, they hold past traumas, deep hungers, and the tumult of change
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Hopscotch: Leaping and Bounding through a Julio Cortázar Classic with Samuel Rutter (Online Only)
5 Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 22 to December 15, 2021
Published in 1963 to rapturous acclaim, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch became an instant (and perennial) bestseller, capturing the imagination...
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Groups+Workshops
Transgressing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel with Lise Schreier (In Person Only)
6 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 28 to December 21, 2021
What is a woman? In nineteenth-century France, writers, painters, doctors, and husbands tried to answer this question by defining women as morally...
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Groups+Workshops
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Early Works with Miriam Tuliao (Online Only) — Sold Out
4 Monthly Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 28 to December 21, 2021
How does memory shape identity and imagination? At once lyrical and elegiac, historical and mysterious, Ishiguro’s fiction explores a wide...
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Groups+Workshops
Women Crime Fiction Writers of the 1940s and '50s with Dr. Frankie Y. Bailey (Online Only) — Sold Out
4 Monthly Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 29 to December 22, 2021
In the aftermath of World War II, the French coined the phrase film noir to describe tough-minded, hard-boiled American crime and detective films
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio with Rebecca Falkoff and Joseph Perna (Online Only)
4 Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 4 to December 6, 2021
This reading group will be dedicated to a careful reading of Petrolio (1992), the visionary posthumous work by the prolific poet, novelist...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Alice Walker with Dr. Regina A. Bernard, Ph.D. (Online Only)
4 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 14, 2021 to January 6, 2022
In 1982, Alice Walker published The Color Purple—a novel about girlhood, family, identity, feminism, power, heartbreak and so much more
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT October 20, 2021
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Virtual KidsReading Club: The Jumbies
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT October 23, 2021
Get ready for Halloween with a book discussion of Tracey Baptiste’s The Jumbies for kids ages 9-12. Corinne La Mer isn’t...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: Family Secrets and Burdens in Speculative Fiction with Marc Abbott (Online Only)
3 Monthly Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT October 24 to December 19, 2021
Every family has secrets. While many of them serve to protect the family dynamic from harm, the burden they carry can weigh heavy on the one who...