May 2022
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (select stories)
featuring Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition. —W. W. Norton —"The greatest short story collection of all time.”…
Find out more »The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (select stories)
featuring Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition. —W. W. Norton —"The greatest short story collection of all time.”…
Find out more »June 2022
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
featuring Geovani Ramirez, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature —Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful . . . rich with music and picture." —Gwendolyn Books —Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered…
Find out more »The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
featuring Geovani Ramirez, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature —Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful . . . rich with music and picture." —Gwendolyn Books —Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered…
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