Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Unreliable Narrators in Crime Fiction with Hilary Davidson
5 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 9, 2024 to January 8, 2025
Online | In fiction, few reveals are as thrilling and dramatic as a reader’s realization that they have been guided through a story...
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Stories from NYC’s Asian Diaspora with Miriam Tuliao
3 Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 9 to December 4, 2024
Online | This group will read and discuss three contemporary novels by Asian diasporic writers. Their New York City-based stories—ranging...
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Brooklyn in the 20th Century with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
4 Sessions 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 8 to January 7, 2024
Online | Brooklyn, New York’s most populous borough and its fastest-growing, has been in a constant state of transformation since it was founded
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The Kick of the Novella with Martha Cooley
4 Sessions Saturdays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT October 5 to October 26, 2024
Online | The novella is a venerable, often startling, and deeply satisfying form of fiction. We’ll think and talk about what makes...
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A Republic on the Brink: Reading Julius Caesar in an Election Year with Lauren Yanks
6 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 3 to November 7, 2024
Online | Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar challenges readers to consider the upheavals and emotional turmoil that come with power and politics
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The Rise of Feeling in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel with Katherine Montwieler
6 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 1, 2024 to January 28, 2025
Online | This fall, we’ll take a deep dive into the nineteenth-century French novel in translation, exploring particularly its representation...
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Jane Austen, Early and Late with Joanna Biggs
4 Sessions Saturdays, 11:30 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT November 2 to November 23, 2024
In Person | Across four weeks, trace the progression of Jane Austen’s career from her sparkling second novel Pride and Prejudice...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula with Lesley Finn
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 30, 2024
In Person | First published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is perhaps the classic Western horror novel
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Victorian Historical Fictions: Dickens, Eliot, and Stevenson with Amanda Hollander
5 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 10, 2024 to February 6, 2025
In Person | Napoleon wrote, perhaps infamously, “What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon
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Cormac McCarthy's The Road with Elizabeth Howard
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 9 to October 30, 2024
In Person | If you have not read Cormac McCarthy, The Road is an excellent entry point, as well as a harrowing parable to read again and again
