Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
E. M. Forster’s Howards End and A Passage to India with Rebecca Rukeyser
4 Sessions Sundays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT July 20 to August 10, 2025
Online | Delve into Forster’s most famous and lauded novels to understand how he tackles themes of class, imperialism, passion, gender...
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Cover to Cover: Never Let Me Go at 20 with Chris Holmes
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 14, 2025
In Person | Investigate why, when Never Let Me Go was published in 2005, the novel was a shock to the literary system, flirting...
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Groups+Workshops
Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland with Matilda Lin Berke
5 Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT July 13 to August 10, 2025
In Person | Take on Pynchon’s wildest and most accessible novel, a sharp and satirical exploration of mass culture, paranoia, and...
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Groups+Workshops
John Milton’s Paradise Lost with Shirley Tung
4 Sessions Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT July 26 to August 16, 2025
Online | Tackle this epic narrative of Satan’s rebellion, the fall of Adam and Eve, and the cosmic struggle between free will...
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Groups+Workshops
Cover to Cover: Regina Porter’s The Travelers with Susan Fox
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 30, 2025
In Person | Uncover how buried secrets and tangled histories erupt across generations, reshaping families and those bound by unexpected ties.
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Conversation in the Cathedral: Vargas Llosa's Classic Portrait of Dictatorship with Daniel Castro
5 Sessions Tuesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 8 to August 5, 2025
Online | Discover why Llosa’s most ambitious and formally experimental novel is a monumental work of the Latin American Boom, delving...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: William Faulkner’s “Dry September" with Carl Rollyson
Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 10, 2025
Online | Explore the harrowing account of a lynching that delves into the intersection of race, gender, and mob mentality, examining...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: William Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” with Carl Rollyson
Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 13, 2025
Online | Uncover one of Faulkner’s greatest stories, in which he pursues issues of race, violence, family life, the roles of women...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Wide Sargasso Sea: The Madwoman in the Attic with Laurie Lambert
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 4, 2025
In Person | Set in the lush Caribbean after the end of slavery, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea reimagines the “madwoman...
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In Short: "Flowers for Algernon," a Classic Tragedy with Mary Anna Evans
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 14, 2025
Online | Follow the journey of a man transformed by experimental surgery as this tragic, thought-provoking tale explores the ethical...
