Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
The Art of the Short Story: Kate Doyle on I Meant It Once with Cara Blue Adams
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT July 19, 2023
Navigating one’s twenties can be confusing, with the competing forces of love, loss, nostalgia for the past, and the new responsibilities of...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Jamila Ahmed on Every Rising Sun with Zeyn Joukhadar
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT July 18, 2023
Join Pakistani American writer Jamila Ahmed for the launch of her debut novel Every Rising Sun. Set in twelfth-century...
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Events
In Translation: Victoria Kielland, Damion Searls, and Merve Emre on My Men
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT July 11, 2023
Join us as we welcome writer Victoria Kielland and translator Damion Searls to discuss My Men, Kielland’s...
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Videos
Joanna Biggs Presents A Life of One's Own with Lauren Oyler and Christine Smallwood
Can a woman thrive creatively and intellectually within society’s expectations? Is domesticity a trap? Where is that room, Virginia?
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Groups+Workshops
Curiosities: Little-Known Short Novels by Henry James with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 7 to September 28, 2023
Read two short, fairly obscure novels whose brisk, plot-driven narratives mark them distinctly from James’s longer, more familiar novels
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Groups+Workshops
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain with Kannan Mahadevan (Sold Out)
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...
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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
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
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
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...
