Reading Groups
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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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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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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...
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Femme Fatale: Villain or Antihero? with Hilary Davidson
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 25, 2023 to January 17, 2024
The femme fatale has become a staple of hardboiled crime fiction, often portrayed as a conniving, cruel woman who uses her beauty and sexual charms...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: The Vampire Plot with Marc L. Abbott
Three Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT October 29 to December 3, 2023
These stories go beyond the typical vampire’s need to feed: the characters may need human blood to survive but their actions have a much...
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Groups+Workshops
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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Groups+Workshops
Reading Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 1 to December 20, 2023
Moby-Dick is not only a novel about a quest, a voyage of the soul. It is not only a novel about the maniacal dictates of one man over...