Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
In Translation: Sjón on Red Milk with Sam Anderson
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT February 15, 2022
The year is 1962, and an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for England, a map marred with a red-penned swastika in hand
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Videos
Jessamine Chan on The School for Good Mothers with Julia Phillips
In one of the most anticipated debuts of 2022, a single lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of...
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Videos
Charmaine Wilkerson on Black Cake with Taylor Jenkins Reid
In Charmaine Wilkerson’s exquisitely evocative debut novel, Black Cake, two estranged siblings must set aside their...
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VideosOn America
On America: Randall Kennedy on Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word with Erroll McDonald and Annette Gordon-Reed
To celebrate the publication of the twentieth anniversary edition, we were honored to host this distinguished panel discussion of Randall...
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Groups+Workshops
Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus with Sheridan Hay (Sold Out)
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT May 4 to May 25, 2022
As the leader of the Henry James Reading Group for ten years or so (and as an Australian writer), it perhaps won’t surprise any close reader...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: The Vampire Evolution with Marc Abbott
Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT March 27 to June 26, 2022
Vampires are one of the most popular monsters in horror. Over the years, they have slowly evolved from terrifying night stalkers to tragic anti-heroes...
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Groups+Workshops
Modern Houses with Anne Fernald (Sold Out)
Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 21 to June 20, 2022
Novels have long had houses at their core. Often, the house is a kind of symbol of the marriage: a happy ending means getting the beloved and the estate
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Groups+Workshops
The Memoir and Fiction of Joan Didion with Lynn Strong (Sold Out)
Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 17 to June 16, 2022
The center will not hold; Goodbye to all that; we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Few writers have enmeshed themselves so fully into...
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Groups+Workshops
Alternative Argentinas with Sam Rutter
Tuesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 15 to June 21, 2022
Beyond 20th century luminaries like Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo or Julio Cortázar, Argentina is home to a dynamic literary tradition that...
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Groups+Workshops
Agatha Christie’s Heirs: Modern Mysteries Inspired by the Queen of Crime Fiction with Hilary Davidson
Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 10 to June 23, 2022
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Agatha Christie in the world of mystery fiction. Between 1920 and 1976, Christie published some...
