Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
The Political and the Domestic: Dickens and Contemporaries with Amanda Hollander
Seven Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 28 to June 27, 2024
In Person | Read novels by Dickens, Gaskell, and Brontë from the middle of the 19th century, traversing city and bureaucracy, interiority...
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Groups+Workshops
The Agony and the Malice: Heartbreak in French Literature with Dr. Lise-Ségolène Schreier
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 27 to June 26, 2024
In Person | Feeling heartbroken? Find solace in heartbreak stories that offer validation and distraction. Dive into French literature’s...
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Groups+Workshops
Bending Memory: Exploring Amélie Nothomb’s Autobiographies with Thais Vitorelli
Five Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 25 to July 15, 2024
Experience and discuss Nothomb’s unique approach to autobiographical fiction—each of the selected novels offers a distinct perspective on...
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Groups+Workshops
See It from My Perspective: Exploring the Impact of POV with Sheila Kohler
Six Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 25 to July 1, 2024
Look at different kinds of narrators and what effect each has on the story: from first-person-distant and third-person narrators to mysterious...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Barbara Pym with Han Ong
Four Sessions Saturdays, 12:30 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT March 23 to April 20, 2024
In Person | Pym is beloved for her books about spinsters and vicars and anthropologists, all of whom she guides with a gentle hand and...
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Groups+Workshops
Archetypal Innovation at the Fin-de-Siècle: Creating the Modern Detective, Vampire, Gothic, and Scientist with Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 20 to June 5, 2024
Meet the modern detective, the vampire, and the scientist: archetypes that haunt our cultural imagination to this day, born during the 1890s—a...
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Events
A Reading with The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2023–2024 Emerging Writer Fellows
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT May 23, 2024
The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2023-2024 Emerging Writer Fellows come together to share their published writing and works in progress
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Crimes and Passion
Though we get an extra day this month (thanks to the leap year), folklore suggests February 29th is bad luck. The characters in these four novels...
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VideosStory/Teller
The Art of the Short Story: Diane Oliver's Neighbors with Tayari Jones, Lan Samantha Chang, and Dawnie Walton
A remarkable literary talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22—just weeks away from graduating...
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Events
The International Library: Jennifer Croft on The Extinction of Irena Ray with Julie Orringer
Wednesday, 1:00 pm EDT March 6, 2024
The latest installment of The International Library series features Jennifer Croft’s debut novel The Extinction of Irena...
