Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
What the South Knew: Faulkner in the Trump Era with Linda Chavers
4 Sessions Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT July 11 to August 22, 2026
Online | Read Faulkner closely—his sentences, structure, and radical formal choices—to better understand Trump’s America and the...
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The Unlived Life: Novels of Midlife Escape with Jennifer Stock
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT July 28 to September 8, 2026
In Person | Explore three landmark novels that chronicle midlife escapes centered on transgression and pose serious questions about the...
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Reading Classic Black Children’s Novels with Gale Greenlee
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT July 8 to September 9, 2026
Online | Enter the world of Black children’s fiction, written by literary luminaries of the past. Dig into a curated collection of...
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Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy with Alaya Dawn Johnson
3 Sessions Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT July 11 to August 22, 2026
Online | Lilith’s Brood, or the Xenogenesis trilogy, is a masterwork: weird, wild, dangerous, compelling, and philosophically potent
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In Short: William Faulkner's "Mistral" with Carl Rollyson
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 16, 2026
Online | Set in an Italian mountain town under fascist rule, two Americans encounter a possible murder no one will discuss
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In Short: Shirley Jackson’s "The Summer People” with Lesley Finn
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 14, 2026
In Person | Trace Jackson’s uncanny narrative skill through this 1950 masterpiece, which turns the simple tale of a middle-aged couple...
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In Short: Joyce Carol Oates’s “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again” with Art Taylor
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT August 10, 2026
Online | Delve into this thematically rich, formally daring portrait of adolescence, alienation, and violence as a teenage girl moves...
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In Short: Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Dead Fiddler" with Richard Klin
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 20, 2026
Online | A vivid, macabre story—and a perfect introduction to Singer’s work—this tale plunges into the world of Eastern European...
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In Short: Ben Lerner's "The Hofmann Wobble" with Matilda Lin Berke
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 7, 2026
Online | Explore the slippage between life and art, truth and fiction, in this AI-inflected autofiction—and consider what its wobbling...
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Franz Kafka’s The Castle with Martha Cooley
4 Sessions Sundays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT July 12 to August 23, 2026
Online | Published a century ago, this comic, unsettling, and superbly strange novel has a lot to say to readers now about bureaucracy...
