Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
Salon d'Ayiti Featuring The Haiti Reader
Saturday, 2:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT February 11, 2023
Featuring select readings, panel discussion, Q&A, and a reception with the editors of The Haiti Reader: History, Culture & Politics...
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Groups+Workshops
Henry James's The Golden Bowl with Sheridan Hay (Sold Out)
Four Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT May 3 to May 24, 2023
Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl was Henry James’s last complete novel, written during his final “major phase
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Groups+Workshops
Speedboat and Sleepless Nights and 1970s New York with Mike Levine
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 4 to April 25, 2023
Renata Adler’s Speedboat (1976) is a time capsule of New York’s literary milieu in the 1970s and a timeless piece of electric prose
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Groups+Workshops
NEA Big Read: Identity Politics and the Asian American Writer with Elizabeth Joseph
Three Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 21 to May 16, 2023
The dualities and intersectionalities of the Asian American identities derive from numerous inherited and inherent expectations
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Groups+Workshops
Roberto Bolaño's 2666: An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom with Samuel Rutter
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT 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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Groups+Workshops
Illuminating the Ordinary: Elizabeth Strout's Amgash Series with Katherine Montwieler
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT 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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Groups+Workshops
Further Novels of Charles Dickens with Amanda Hollander
Six Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT 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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Groups+Workshops
Irish Educations with Philip Geheber
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT 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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Groups+Workshops
Herself, Destructed: Examining Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT 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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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: Speculative Characters with Marc L. Abbott
Four Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT 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
