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SUMMARY:Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series - Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
DESCRIPTION:Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea\nSure\, you maybe read Jane Eyre in college but you won’t believe the ways this thoroughly adult novel will wow you. Published in 1847\, Jane was one of the first novels told from the first person. The book revolutionized prose by revealing so much of the speaker’s interiority and is often considered a precursor to Proust and Faulkner. It has spawned reams of scholarship on class\, sexuality and feminism. Most importantly\, though\, Jane Eyre is just such an absorbing\, suspenseful\, sensual and meaningful book. \nAs if the Brontë masterpiece weren’t enough\, we will read Jane alongside the insanely great modern prequel (1966) by Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea takes us to Rhys’s Caribbean to explore the background of the “madwoman in the attic\,” the shocking character who is both invisible and at the heart of Jane. This slim novel is an important post-colonial response that will enrich your appreciation of Brontë. Either of these novels would make for a rich seminar; together\, they’ll allow for excellent literary insights. Join us! \nJoin Kimberly Ford\, for this two-part seminar series on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. We will be hosting this series on the following dates: \nMonday\, July 12 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nMonday\, July 19 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nThere are several ticket options that include books with purchase\, books shipped to home\, books picked up at Kepler’s Books or seminar only.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for the literary seminars. The books should be read prior to the meeting date.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Violet Kupersmith and Rachel Khong
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, JULY 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN VIOLET KUPERSMITH JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST NOVEL\, BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY\, WITH RACHEL KHONG ON ZOOM!\nPRESENTED IN PROUD PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88071786486\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88071786486#  or +12532158782\,\,88071786486#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kelCQTV21m \nPraise for Build Your House Around My Body\n“A heady\, gothic\, spellbinder of a book.”—Kelly Link\, author of Get in Trouble \n“This impressively constructed weave of stories\, haunted by the ghosts of history and family\, is gorgeous\, completely original\, and quite disturbing—usually all at the same time. Beware! This book might swallow you up.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“A rich and dazzling spectacle…that peels back the layers of a haunted Vietnam.”—Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Build Your House Around My Body\nPart puzzle\, part revenge tale\, part ghost story\, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman. \nIn 1986\, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. \nIn 2009\, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover\, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. \nAnd in 2011\, a young\, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace. \nOver the course of the novel\, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way\, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the métis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co.\, called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. \nWritten with wit\, ambition\, and playfulness\, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos\, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats\, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion\, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands\, a time-traveling\, heart-pounding\, border-crossing marvel of a novel. \nAbout Violet Kupersmith\nViolet Kupersmith is the author of the short story collection The Frangipani Hotel. She previously taught English with the Fulbright Program in the Mekong Delta and was a creative writing fellow at the University of East Anglia. She has lived in Da Lat and Saigon\, Vietnam\, and currently resides in the U.S.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Adam Serwer\, The Cruelty Is the Point
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Adam Serwer\, award-winning journalist at The Atlantic\, will discuss The Cruelty Is the Point—his searing collection of essays which make a damning case that cruelty is not merely an unfortunate byproduct of the Trump administration but its main objective and the central theme of the American project. This event is cosponsored by Marcus Books. \n“No writer better demonstrates how American dreams are so often sabotaged by American history. Adam Serwer is essential.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nTrump summoned the most treacherous forces in American history and conducted them with the ease of a grand maestro. \nLike many of us\, Adam Serwer didn’t know that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. But over the four years that followed\, the Atlantic staff writer became one of our most astute analysts of the Trump presidency and the volatile powers it harnessed. The shock that greeted Trump’s victory\, and the subsequent cruelty of his presidency\, represented a failure to confront elements of the American past long thought vanquished. \nIn this searing collection\, Serwer chronicles the Trump administration not as an aberration but as an outgrowth of the inequalities the United States was founded on. Serwer is less interested in the presidential spectacle than in the ideological and structural currents behind Trump’s rise—including a media that was often blindsided by the ugly realities of what the administration represented and how it came to be. \nWhile deeply engaged with the moment\, Serwer’s writing is also haunted by ghosts of an unresolved American past\, a past that torments the present. In bracing new essays and previously published works\, he explores white nationalism\, myths about migration\, the political power of police unions\, and the many faces of anti-Semitism. For all the dynamics he examines\, cruelty is the glue\, the binding agent of a movement fueled by fear and exclusion. Serwer argues that rather than pretending these four years didn’t happen or dismissing them as a brief moment of madness\, we must face what made them possible. Without acknowledging and confronting these toxic legacies\, the fragile dream of American multiracial democracy will remain vulnerable to another ambitious demagogue. \n“Serwer’s powerful truth-telling grabs us\, shakes us\, and warns us that as long as we wishfully forget the history of American cruelty\, we will fail to see it coming for all that we hold dear.” —Heather McGhee\, author of The Sum of Us \nAdam Serwer has written for The Atlantic since 2016\, focusing on contemporary politics while often viewing it through the lens of history. Serwer was a Spring Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as well as the Ira Lipman Fellow at the Columbia University School of Journalism. He is the recipient of the 2019 Hillman Prize for opinion journalism. He lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, with his family.
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