Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying with Elizabeth Howard
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 4 to October 25, 2023
An experiment in modernism, with its innovative use of multiple voices exploring themes of cultural alienation, As I Lay Dying remains...
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Groups+Workshops
Good Moms, Bad Moms: Mothers in Contemporary French Autobiographies with Lise Schreier
Five Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 5 to December 21, 2023
Mothers are central characters in many artists’ emotional and creative landscapes. Explore how five French authors have expressed their overpowering...
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Groups+Workshops
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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Groups+Workshops
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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Groups+Workshops
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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Groups+Workshops
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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Groups+Workshops
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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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT October 18, 2023
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Nightlighters
Monday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 23, 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
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...