Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Comedy, Culture, and Critical Thinking with Dan McGrath (Sold Out) (April 2021)
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT April 14 to May 19, 2021
The course will have two main goals: one is to try to assist the student in identifying and using comedic literary strategies (dramatic, poetic...
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Groups+Workshops
Bringing Music Back Alive with Rafi Zabor (April 2021)
Once a week Saturdays, 2:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT April 24 to May 8, 2021
By now, generations of us have grown up shaping ourselves to music, to finding in it an answering essence to our essence and its quests
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Groups+Workshops
Poetry and Translation with Erín Moure (April 2021)
Once a week Thursdays, 11:00 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT April 22 to May 27, 2021
Over the six weeks we’ll create a relaxing and intriguing online group workspace to discuss poems that participants want to translate
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Groups+Workshops
Unlocking Your Novel by Looking Within with Chelsea Bieker (Sold Out) (May 2021)
Friday - Sunday 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT May 14 to May 16, 2021
Writing a novel can be a lonely business. Perhaps you’ve been working on yours for a long time and are waiting for things to finally click...
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Groups+Workshops
Two Characters Walk into a Bar: A Point of View Workshop with Kelli Jo Ford
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 2:15 pm EDT May 1 to May 2, 2021
When we begin writing a new story, we are making choices from our very first sentence: What characters will we focus on? Whose voice will tell...
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Groups+Workshops
The Spoken Role with Charles Bock (June 2021)
Friday & Saturday 6:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT June 11 to June 12, 2021
Dialogue is an important and huge part of the craft of fiction. It’s also one of the most commonly misused parts—imitating Twain and trying...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Inspirations from Life: Actual, Fictional, Artificial
From piercing fiction about hearts and minds in conflict to words of heartfelt wisdom from a life well lived, read on for this week’s selection...
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Events
Kirstin Valdez Quade on The Five Wounds with Alice McDermott
Thursday, 7:30 pm EDT April 8, 2021
Lauded author Kirstin Valdez Quade joins National Book Award winner Alice McDermott (Charming Billy)...
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Events
On Reading: Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
Wednesday, 7:30 pm EDT March 24, 2021
Join us to celebrate a new edition of Shirley Hazzard’s classic literary masterpiece The Transit of Venus
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VideosOn America
On America: Climate Writing with Elizabeth Kolbert, Madeleine Watts, and Leslie Jamison
Can great writing help us confront the global climate crisis before it’s too late? Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker staff writer...
