Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Close Encounters: Writing Intimacy and Connection with Danielle Lazarin (January 2026)
Once a week Tuesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT January 6 to February 24, 2026
Online | Bonds between friends, lovers, and strangers come to life as you learn to craft intimacy, conflict, and connection with honesty...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
On the Edge
Four taut novels will keep you on the edge of your seat, plus a posthumous memoir from a favorite rock star. We have a spy story set in the ’60s...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Across the Ages
This week’s grouping features a multigenerational slate of authors, ranging from their 20s to their 80s—one debut showing remarkable promise...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls… with Sullivan Summer
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 12, 2026
In Person | Celebrate Shange’s groundbreaking work, which gives voice to Black women’s experiences of struggle, resilience, and...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: The Legacy of "Little Red Riding Hood" with Amanda Hollander
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 5, 2026
Online | Trace the evolution of this enduring fairy tale, from dark European variants to modern retellings, and examine how its warnings...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit with Shirley Tung
Saturday, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT February 28, 2026
Online | Dive in to Sartre’s 1944 existentialist masterpiece, where three characters trapped in a single room confront the human...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and “The Pied Piper of Tucson” with Art Taylor
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT February 23, 2026
Online | Revisit Oates’s tense, unforgettable story alongside the true-crime article that inspired it, exploring how fact and fiction intersect.
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Groups+Workshops
Object Lessons: Novels of Urban Domesticity with Jennifer Stock
3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT February 19 to April 9, 2026
In Person | Traverse the lives of young urban professionals, exploring how objects, routines, and domestic rituals reveal desires for...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Mavis Gallant's "Scarves, Beads, Sandals" with Mike Levine
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 17, 2026
In Person | Unpack Gallant’s masterful short story, where subtle actions, unsaid words, and the lingering presence of objects reveal...
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Groups+Workshops
Tilting at Windmills: Reading Don Quixote with Samuel Rutter
8 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 9 to May 18, 2026
Online | Ribald, raucous, and endlessly inventive, Don Quixote can be read as a comic adventure, a postmodern masterpiece...
