Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Shirley Jackson’s "The Summer People” with Lesley Finn
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 14, 2026
In Person | Trace Jackson’s uncanny narrative skill through this 1950 masterpiece, which turns the simple tale of a middle-aged couple...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh with Joanna Biggs
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 16 to August 6, 2026
In Person | Discover why this dazzling verse novel was a formative influence on Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Susan B
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In Short: William Faulkner's "Mistral" with Carl Rollyson
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 16, 2026
Online | Set in an Italian mountain town under fascist rule, two Americans encounter a possible murder no one will discuss
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In Short: Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Dead Fiddler" with Richard Klin
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 20, 2026
Online | A vivid, macabre story—and a perfect introduction to Singer’s work—this tale plunges into the world of Eastern European...
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The Unlived Life: Novels of Midlife Escape with Jennifer Stock
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT July 28 to September 8, 2026
In Person | Explore three landmark novels that chronicle midlife escapes centered on transgression and pose serious questions about the...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot and Marple with Mary Anna Evans
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 3 to September 14, 2026
Online | Read Agatha Christie’s first and final Poirot and Marple novels to see how two of fiction’s most enduring outsiders observe...
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Henry James: Volume II with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 5 to August 26, 2026
Online | Read four of James’s most enigmatic short works as a way of tracing his growing fascination with ambiguity, secrecy, and consciousness—and...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Joyce Carol Oates’s “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again” with Art Taylor
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT August 10, 2026
Online | Delve into this thematically rich, formally daring portrait of adolescence, alienation, and violence as a teenage girl moves...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Amanda Lehr
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 13, 2026
In Person | St. Valentine’s Day, 1900: nineteen girls go on a picnic—three never come back. Inspired by a dream and drafted in less...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Black Femme Transformation in Eloghosa Osunde's "Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open" with Magenta Naaku
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT August 15, 2026
In Person | This vivacious queer story probes the complexities of desire as a Black femme discovers she can shapeshift by inhabiting abandoned bodies
