Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Supernatural Summer KidsWriting Workshop with Nancy R. Lambert
Monday - Thursday 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT July 12 to July 15, 2021
The Supernatural Summer KidsWriting Workshop will focus on fostering creativity and confidence in a fun, encouraging environment over the course of four days
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Groups+Workshops
Stand-Out Stories: Personal Essays for College Applications and Beyond with Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
Monday - Thursday 1:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT July 12 to July 22, 2021
“Show don’t tell” is common advice for fiction writers, but it is key for crafting college essays, too! Here’s why it works: Information...
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Groups+Workshops
Introduction to Writing the Short Story with Elizabeth Wetmore (Sold Out)
Monday - Thursday 1:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT July 12 to July 22, 2021
Together, we will develop a sense of the short story’s possibilities, from its initial shadowy impulses to its shapelier, more polished outcomes
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Groups+Workshops
Technicolor Zip: Literary Maximalism with Katherine Mayfield
Monday - Thursday 1:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT July 26 to August 5, 2021
The focus of this class is literary maximalism: over-bright language, hallucinatory descriptions, excess movement, and vivid, hyper-sensory scenes
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Videos
On Reading: Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
We celebrated a new edition of Shirley Hazzard’s classic literary masterpiece The Transit of Venus with an all-star...
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Events
Author/Translator: Maylis de Kerangal and Jessica Moore on Painting Time with Lydia Kiesling
Tuesday, 1:00 pm EDT May 18, 2021
French author Maylis de Kerangal explores the contours of contemporary art and the profession of painting in her new translated...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Spring Reading
As there is finally light at the end of the pandemic tunnel one has to wonder if New York City can ever be the place it once was
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Events
What Are the Strategies of 'Deviant' or Queer Translation?
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT June 17, 2021
Poet and translator Rajiv Mohabir will pose questions that think on translation as a trialogue. What happens when the translation...
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VideosLiterary Translation Clinics
Where Does Translation End and Co-Translation Begin?
Working in pairs. Hiring readers. Workshopping. Trusting editors. There are many ways to get a manuscript from a draft to a final translation
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Groups+Workshops
NEA Big Read: From the Desk of Zoe Washington Middle Grade Reading Group
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT June 12, 2021
In this 90-minute, single-session group for middle grade readers, ages 9-12, we’ll be reading and discussing the critically lauded, bestselling...
