Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Celeste Mohammed's "The Dragon's Mouth (Bocas del Dragón)" with Andie Davis
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 3, 2026
In Person | Cross the straits between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela in Mohammed’s lyrical story of migration, intimacy, and survival...
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Art and the Artist with Matilda Lin Berke
6 Sessions 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT May 14 to June 24, 2026
In Person | Trace how Vladimir Nabokov’s playful mastery of language shapes voice, structure, and moral complexity across Lolita...
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Novelists Writing Novelists with Sullivan Summer
3 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT May 4 to June 22, 2026
Online | Read three popular novels that blur truth, performance, and authorship itself. Explore how fiction mirrors ambition, identity...
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Revisiting Frankenstein with Ana Klimchynskaya
2 Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT May 4 to May 11, 2026
Online | Return to Shelley’s foundational novel as Gothic horror and creation myth, exploring how ambition and abandonment haunt this modern classic.
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Beyond the Tropes: The Chilling Works of Paul Tremblay with Marc Abbott
4 Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT May 3 to July 12, 2026
Online | Examine how Tremblay bends horror toward intimate studies of family, trauma, and belief, where doubt becomes the most unsettling force of all.
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In Short: Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” with Pam Newton
Monday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 27, 2026
In Person | Unpack Mansfield’s deceptively light classic, where class and conscience surface beneath a garden party’s calm.
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In Short: Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams with August Thompson
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 23, 2026
In Person | Explore how memory and loss shape a single life against a changing American landscape and trace how the personal becomes mythic.
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Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives with Shirley Tung
5 Sessions Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT April 18 to June 27, 2026
Online | Read Atwood’s fragmentary memoir alongside her fiction, showing how lived experience becomes story and the unstable line...
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The Strange Worlds of J. G. Ballard with Zack Graham
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 16 to July 9, 2026
In Person | Descend into Ballard’s surreal futures, where catastrophe, consumer culture, and psychic collapse collide, revealing the...
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Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel with Brad Vogel
5 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 15 to May 13, 2026
In Person | Roam New York’s overlooked corners through Mitchell’s legendary reportage and discover how character, place, and voice...
