Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Landscape and Dreamscape: The Short Fiction of Aimee Bender with Jacqueline Ahl
6 Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 27 to May 1, 2025
Online | Explore a curated selection of Bender’s best work—layered, symbolic, unsettling, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny—serving...
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Groups+Workshops
Madwomen on the Ward: Memoirs of Institutionalization with Naomi Huffman & Julia Ringo
5 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 25 to June 17, 2025
Online | The mental hospital occupies a complex and unsettling space in the American imagination. Examine the role of the psychiatric...
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Groups+Workshops
Time and Meaning: A Visual Exploration of Infinite Possibilities with Thais Vitorelli
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 25 to May 6, 2025
Online | Investigate time, mortality, and life’s possibilities through three graphic novels from three different countries, each offering...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Khaled Khalifa Through the Lens of William Faulkner with Elizabeth Howard
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT May 6 to June 3, 2025
In Person | Examine how Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work uses the structure of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying...
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Groups+Workshops
The Girl Orphan in Literature with Amanda Hollander
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 10 to June 12, 2025
In Person | Explore the early twentieth century’s fascination with orphanhood and its role in shaping identity in a rapidly evolving...
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Vast Expanses: Time and Space in the Southern Hemisphere and Beyond with Sam Rutter
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 9 to June 11, 2025
In Person | The so-called “New World” promised a fresh start for settlers, explorers, and marauders arriving in lands already...
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Groups+Workshops
How Should a Woman Be? Three Novels About Women and Freedom with Jennifer Stock
3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 27 to May 8, 2025
In Person | How do any of us know how to act in the world? Delve into narratives where female protagonists face confusion surrounding...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" with Jacqueline Ahl
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT May 22, 2025
Online | “The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.” So begins “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 satirical...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Halimah Marcus’s “Running Alone” with Donna Raskin
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT April 3, 2025
Online | While writing is a sedentary activity, many novelists, poets, and essayists turn to daily walks and runs for inspiration—explore...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Sense of Place
As Rebecca Solnit has said, “Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together
