Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
Don Quixote with Kannan Mahadevan
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 15 to November 3, 2022
It is hard to overstate the influence of Miguel de Cervantes’ two-part 17th century novel, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
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Revisionist Genre with Donna Raskin
4 Monthly Sessions Fridays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 16 to December 9, 2022
A Stranger Comes to Town. The Meet Cute. Genre novelists rely on conventions to fit their books into a category, but literary...
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Beyond the Tropes: Latinx Terror with Marc L. Abbott
Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT September 18 to December 18, 2022
This fall, we step into the world of speculative fiction with terrifying works written by Latinx authors. In this session, we will read and dissect...
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Advanced Proust: In Search of Lost Time with Lila Azam Zanganeh (Sold Out)
Third Tuesday of Every Month Tuesdays, 5:00 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDT September 20, 2022 to August 15, 2023
“An open book is time regained,” wrote Bernard de Fallois, a legendary French editor and Proustian who, upon dying in 2018, released a trove...
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Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT September 21, 2022
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
The Novels of Charles Dickens with Amanda Hollander
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 22 to December 22, 2022
In his critical writing on the works of Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton remarked that “Dickens knew that Socialism was coming, though...
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Reading the Russians with Sheila Kohler (Sold Out)
6 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 26, 2022 to January 9, 2023
We will read the Russians starting with some short stories featuring supernatural elements: the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol’s “The...
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The Novels of Yoko Tawada with Miriam Tuliao
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 26 to December 19, 2022
Dreamy, dystopic, and delightfully strange, Yoko Tawada’s stories traverse the boundaries of culture, identity, language, and consciousness
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Belief and Doubt: The Novels of Graham Greene (and One by John le Carré) with Dennis Krieger
5 Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 29, 2022 to January 26, 2023
Dennis Krieger will again lead his popular Graham Greene reading group! In five of Graham Greene’s most celebrated novels, Greene traverses...
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Born Freaks: A Katherine Dunn Reading Group with Naomi Huffman (Featuring Special Guests!)
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 4 to November 8, 2022
Upon its release in 1989, Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love captivated readers with the grotesque and fabulous Binewski family’s carnival...