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[In Progress] Ulysses Weekly with Robert Berry | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 25, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 2, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 9, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 16, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 23, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 30, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 6, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 13, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work. For those returning to the novel, this will be a great way to delve even deeper into a book whose depths never seem to end.

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[In Progress] David Copperfield through 21st Century Eyes with Juliette Wells | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 30, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 14, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 28, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead takes inspiration from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in order to tell the gripping story of a boy growing up in Appalachia who is deeply affected by the opioid epidemic. Kingsolver has emphasized in interviews that you don’t need to read David Copperfield in order to understand Demon Copperhead. You’ll appreciate Kingsolver’s artistry even more, however, if you first acquaint yourself with, or refresh your memory of, Dickens’s beloved Bildungsroman (a novel that focuses on its main character’s education and development).

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Magical Realism Unveiled: A Journey Through One Hundred Years of Solitude with Luciano Martinez | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • May 1, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 8, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 15, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 22, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 29, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

In this course, we delve into the profound impact of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), authored by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), widely hailed by Yale literary scholar Harold Bloom as “the new Don Quixote.”

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[In Progress] The Music of Plato’s Dialogues with Anne Hall | In-Person Course

Date / Time

  • May 2, 2024
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • May 16, 2024
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

This course is designed for people who have never read Plato or for people who “did Plato” in college and came away thinking once was enough. Besides being the world’s most famous philosopher, Plato is worth reading because he is shrewd about human nature and because he shows an artistic sense of the structure of a story.

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Tales from the Goblin-Market: The World of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | Behind the Bookcase

Date / Time

  • May 4, 2024
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Enter the mythical, enchanting world of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood through the Rosenbach’s first and early editions of the creative sibling duo Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, illuminated manuscript-inspired editions from the Kelmscott Press published by Arts and Crafts Movement proponent William Morris, and inspirations for the movement’s most famous paintings and favorite subjects.

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Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Date / Time

  • May 6, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 13, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 20, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 27, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 3, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 10, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 17, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 24, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

We’re continuing our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure with a special subscriber-only show for eight episodes. Join us as we take a Biblioventure to Dartmoor where a strange diabolical hound haunts the moors, preying upon the heirs of Baskerville Hall. What will the logically reasoning Sherlock Holmes do when faced with a supernatural creature?

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