Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Nightlighters
Monday, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST December 11, 2023
The Nightlighters is a free, in-person reading group for members of The Center for Fiction! Led by rotating staff members, The...
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EST - 1:30 pm EST December 20, 2023
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
John Banville and His Many Worlds of Narrative with William Mottolese
Five Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 4 to April 25, 2024
Dive into John Banville’s rich language, complex plots, and dark humor from his earliest canonical novels to his most recent work, and explore...
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Under the Influence: Reading and Journaling Teju Cole with Elizabeth Howard
Five Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 9 to March 12, 2024
Teju Cole’s Open City is a peripatetic, meditative novel about reflection and processing. Participants in this reading group will be...
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Beyond Cli-Fi with Outlandish: Black and Indigenous Nature Lit with Benje Williams
Four Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST January 10 to April 17, 2024
Despite the profound presence of the natural world in Black lives throughout time, authors of color are not commonly associated with nature or place-based writing
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Contemporary African Novels with Nana Brew-Hammond
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 10 to May 1, 2024
Though much has been written about the ways colonialism and the slave trades have impacted Africa and Africans, and how politics and poverty have...
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Groups+Workshops
Tolstoy's "Master and Man" and a Cocktail with Pam Newton
Thursday, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 11, 2024
Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” tells the tale of a landowner and a peasant becoming lost in a brutal snowstorm, exploring themes of human goodness...
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Groups+Workshops
Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels with Thais Vitorelli
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST January 16 to April 9, 2024
Elena Ferrante’s beloved Neapolitan Novels use evocative imagery to illustrate themes of female identity, motherhood, friendship, legacy, and citizenship
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Groups+Workshops
The Short Stories of James Baldwin with Regina A. Bernard
Once a week Mondays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST January 22 to March 11, 2024
James Baldwin, as a writer and a human being, has the power to alter the way you read literature and exist in the world. In this group, we will...