Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
Crime/Scene: Jonathan Santlofer on The Last Mona Lisa with Alison Gaylin
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT September 9, 2021
Jonathan Santlofer (Inherit the Dead) opens a new Center for Fiction series on crime fiction with his latest release...
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In Translation: Sandra Cisneros on Martita, I Remember You with Rigoberto González and Liliana Valenzuela
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT September 23, 2021
Sandra Cisneros, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, returns to the literary scene with a new release...
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Deborah Levy on Real Estate with Tash Aw
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 14, 2021
Real Estate concludes Deborah Levy’s groundbreaking Living Autobiography trilogy. Tash Aw, the...
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The Art of the Short Story: Diane Williams on How High? — That High with Matthew Daddona
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 13, 2021
Diane Williams, a master of the short story, celebrates the launch of How High? — That High, a new collection of short...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick with Sheridan Hay (Online Only) — Sold Out
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 3 to December 22, 2021
For the tenth year, Sheridan Hay leads readers through the epic adventure of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. By dividing the narrative...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: Family Secrets and Burdens in Speculative Fiction with Marc Abbott (Online Only)
3 Monthly Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT October 24 to December 19, 2021
Every family has secrets. While many of them serve to protect the family dynamic from harm, the burden they carry can weigh heavy on the one who...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Alice Walker with Dr. Regina A. Bernard, Ph.D. (Online Only)
4 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 14, 2021 to January 6, 2022
In 1982, Alice Walker published The Color Purple—a novel about girlhood, family, identity, feminism, power, heartbreak and so much more
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Groups+Workshops
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio with Rebecca Falkoff and Joseph Perna (Online Only)
4 Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 4 to December 6, 2021
This reading group will be dedicated to a careful reading of Petrolio (1992), the visionary posthumous work by the prolific poet, novelist...
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Groups+Workshops
Women Crime Fiction Writers of the 1940s and '50s with Dr. Frankie Y. Bailey (Online Only) — Sold Out
4 Monthly Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 29 to December 22, 2021
In the aftermath of World War II, the French coined the phrase film noir to describe tough-minded, hard-boiled American crime and detective films
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Groups+Workshops
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Early Works with Miriam Tuliao (Online Only) — Sold Out
4 Monthly Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 28 to December 21, 2021
How does memory shape identity and imagination? At once lyrical and elegiac, historical and mysterious, Ishiguro’s fiction explores a wide...
