24PearlStreet Upcoming Workshops and Events
Alexander Chee, Nick Flynn, Victoria Redel, Eileen Myles
Books That Matter: The Entire Series
April 24, 2024
Price: $400 (Regular Rate), $200 (Teacher/Student Rate)
24PearlStreet is excited to announce Books That Matter, a new series of online events that will appeal to anyone who loves books. Each event features a beloved member of the FAWC faculty speaking about a book that has been transformative in their lives, followed by an audience Q&A. We hope you will join us this... more
Books That Matter: The Entire Series
April 24, 2024
Price: $400 (Regular Rate), $200 (Teacher/Student Rate)
24PearlStreet is excited to announce Books That Matter, a new series of online events that will appeal to anyone who loves books. Each event features a beloved member of the FAWC faculty speaking about a book that has been transformative in their lives, followed by an audience Q&A. We hope you will join us this... more
Alexander Chee
On Maurice, E. M. Forster's Posthumous Gay Novel
April 24, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) In preparing for my essay about Forster and Maurice in The New Republic a few years ago, I dove deep into the novel’s history, but have since learned even more I’d like to share in this presentation. Please join me for a talk and a discussion about this novel... more
On Maurice, E. M. Forster's Posthumous Gay Novel
April 24, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) In preparing for my essay about Forster and Maurice in The New Republic a few years ago, I dove deep into the novel’s history, but have since learned even more I’d like to share in this presentation. Please join me for a talk and a discussion about this novel... more
Nick Flynn
The Woman in the Dunes—A Metaphor that Transforms as it Moves through Time
May 7, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe sets up an impossible (or at least unlikely) conceit, then commits to it fully. Part speculative, part horror, part a study in psychological tension, part love story, Abe creates a world unlike any we know, that somehow lines up (metaphorically) with... more
The Woman in the Dunes—A Metaphor that Transforms as it Moves through Time
May 7, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe sets up an impossible (or at least unlikely) conceit, then commits to it fully. Part speculative, part horror, part a study in psychological tension, part love story, Abe creates a world unlike any we know, that somehow lines up (metaphorically) with... more
Victoria Redel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold—Prefiguration, Augury, Dream: the Novel as Spiral
May 21, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez is a marvel, a 128 page novella that loops through time, community, social class, destiny, dream, truth while refusing to follow a linear path. And yet the book is all about time since we are told from the start that... more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold—Prefiguration, Augury, Dream: the Novel as Spiral
May 21, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez is a marvel, a 128 page novella that loops through time, community, social class, destiny, dream, truth while refusing to follow a linear path. And yet the book is all about time since we are told from the start that... more
Eileen Myles
The Perpetual Present of Etel Adnan
June 4, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Please join me in reading the book-length poem, The Arab Apocalypse, written in 1980 by Etel Adnan, artist and a novelist and one of the most significant post-modern poets in contemporary Arab culture. She died in 2021, the same year Time, translated by Sarah Riggs, won the Griffin Prize.... more
The Perpetual Present of Etel Adnan
June 4, 2024
Price: $125 (Regular Rate), $75 (Teacher/Student Rate)
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Please join me in reading the book-length poem, The Arab Apocalypse, written in 1980 by Etel Adnan, artist and a novelist and one of the most significant post-modern poets in contemporary Arab culture. She died in 2021, the same year Time, translated by Sarah Riggs, won the Griffin Prize.... more
