Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Acts of Seduction: Women Edited by Gordon Lish with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
Four Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 23, 2023 to January 8, 2024
Gordon Lish, a fiction editor at Esquire and later a book editor at Knopf, became notorious for his significant interventions to the work of many...
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Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual with Evan James
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 17 to December 19, 2023
Georges Perec constructs a kaleidoscopic compendium of human experience and a formally playful literary puzzle in Life: A User’s Manual...
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Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling with Rebecca Rukeyser
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 11 to December 13, 2023
The History of Tom Jones is bawdy, odd, and deeply funny, and one of the first depictions in English fiction of “a real man” who...
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Genre/Gender-Bending Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy with Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Three Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 9 to November 20, 2023
From epic fantasy to aliens running a donut shop in California, Asian diasporic authors take readers on a wild ride that ends with a deeper knowledge...
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What's Italian? Collodi's Pinocchio and De Amicis’s Heart with Antonio Romani
Once a week Saturdays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT October 7 to October 28, 2023
Pinocchio and Heart were written in an overt attempt to build a collective identity after Italy’s unification in 1860
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Belief and Doubt: The Novels of Graham Greene (and One by John le Carré) with Dennis Krieger
Five Sessions 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 5 to January 18, 2023
Graham Greene traverses the polarities between which his characters exist and struggle: Belief and Doubt; Sin and Redemption; and Loyalty and Betrayal
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George Eliot’s Middlemarch with Sheila Kohler
Every Other Week Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 2 to November 27, 2023
George Eliot utilizes shifting points of view, in addition to first-person narration, in her novel Middlemarch, permitting her to thoughtfully...
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Constant Flight Forward: César Aira and His Bonkers Books with Samuel Rutter
Five Sessions 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 27 to January 24, 2023
For the past forty years, César Aira has been publishing short, madcap novels that blend genres, break rules, and surprise the reader
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The Woman Artist with Anne Fernald
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024
Four classic novels by Virginia Woolf, Jessie Fauset, Doris Lessing, and Margaret Atwood analyze the thoughts and creative processes of women artists
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls with Mike Levine
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 24 to November 14, 2023
“Hysterically funny and incredibly moving” (Mel Brooks), Dead Souls follows a man buying serfs who have died in the time...
