📚 4 Sessions

Wednesdays, June 17 – July 8

Morning · 11:00am–12:30pm (15% discount)

Evening · 7:00pm–8:30pm

🕰️ $136 - $200

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Is this group for me?

I highly recommend taking this course if you are looking for:

1. A dedicated moment away from the NYC hustle to do some deep reading
2. Guidance on how to approach a text and generate profound insights from it
3. An in-person community of thoughtful, friendly, readers

More details on the approach

This group pairs two of the defining novels of the 1920s, one American and one expatriate, to ask what it meant to come of age in the aftermath of World War I, when the old ideals had collapsed and no new ones had arrived.

Fitzgerald and Hemingway were friends, rivals, and products of the same fractured moment. Reading them side by side reveals not just two very different styles, but two very different ways of holding grief: one through spectacle and longing, the other through silence and restraint.

Each session, I will bring supplementary material: historical context, close excerpts, and short secondary readings to help us understand these novels as literary objects as much as cultural ones.

This group welcomes readers at any level. No prior familiarity with either author is required, only a willingness to read slowly and think carefully.