Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
How Do We Practice Translation?
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT January 21, 2021
To launch the new series, Allison Markin Powell, Cedilla member and the 2020 recipient of the PEN America Translation Prize...
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Groups+Workshops
Crime Fiction from Book to Film with Dr. Frankie Bailey
5 Sessions via Zoom Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 4 to June 24, 2021
This series focuses on crime fiction in which the author sets the book in the context of real life American history and culture
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Groups+Workshops
Henry James: The Ambassadors and The Tragic Muse with Sheridan Hay (Sold Out)
8 Weekly Sessions via Zoom Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 6 to May 25, 2021
Over the first four weeks we will read James’s late, great novel, The Ambassadors. The novel is the first of the three final “major...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading the Other Americas with Kaiama L. Glover (Sold Out)
4 Sessions via Zoom Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT February 24 to May 26, 2021
Although situated just a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida, the Caribbean archipelago is a relatively little known place
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Groups+Workshops
Latinx Crime Fiction with Richie Narvaez
4 Sessions via Zoom Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 29 to June 21, 2021
Latinx fiction often delves into history and politics, and crime fiction has always dealt with power and the status quo. In this reading group...
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Groups+Workshops
Characters, Acts, Situations: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with Mike Levine
8 Weekly Sessions via Zoom Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 30 to May 18, 2021
Is Anna Karenina the greatest novel ever written? Like all the most interesting questions, this one is unanswerable, but that has not...
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Groups+Workshops
The Novels of Jane Austen with Sasha Troyan (Sold Out)
4 Sessions via Zoom Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 16 to June 15, 2021
Jane Austen’s novels are as popular today as they were two hundred and ten years ago. Of course, not everyone was a fan of her novels; notably...
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Groups+Workshops
Elena Ferrante: The Early Works with Rebecca Falkoff
4 Sessions via Zoom Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 1 to May 24, 2021
This discussion group, led by NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff, will be dedicated to Elena Ferrante’s first three novels, Troubling Love...
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Groups+Workshops
Madame Bovary and Disgrace: The Influence of Romantic Fiction with Sheila Kohler
6 Sessions via Zoom Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 31 to June 9, 2021
We will read these two great books (Madame Bovary in four parts and Disgrace in two) and study the influence of romantic literature...
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Groups+Workshops
Queer and Coming of Age with Thomas Dooley
4 Sessions via Zoom Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 24 to June 23, 2021
While reflecting on his childhood, the narrator in Edmund White’s classic novel, A Boy’s Own Story, describes the sound of...
