Reading Group Calendar May - July 2024

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May 07, 2024

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May 2: Kafka’s Description of a Struggle (additional stories will be added as I have more information.)
A Year in Kafka
The Struggle Within
Hello once more, dear Kafka aficionados! Today, we will explore “Description of a Struggle” (Beschreibung eines Kampfes, on page 25 of the PDF). This tale represents one of Kafka’s initial and perhaps most perplexing compositions. So, fasten your seatbelts for a rollercoaster ride into the bizarre and dreamlike—excluding the “The Fat Man” section (II…
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8 months ago · 5 likes · Leonard Gaya

May 8: Read 1st chapter of The Age of Innocence

Closely Reading

Read "The Age of Innocence" with me!

The time has come! I’m announcing our next read-a-long! The novel that won her the Pulitzer The novel I’ve selected for us to read together next just makes sense: more Edith Wharton, more marriage-plot shenanigans, more Old New York, meddling aunts, opera boxes, ornate gowns, and downright…

9 months ago · 47 likes · 27 comments · haley larsen, phd

May 15: Read through chapter 5 of The Age of Innocence

May 22: Read through chapter 9 of The Age of Innocence

May 29: Read through chapter 14 of The Age of Innocence

June

June 5: Read through chapter 19 of The Age of Innocence

June 7: Read first 20 pages of Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf Reading Group

Reading schedule for Mrs Dalloway

Hello friends! First up, we will read Mrs Dalloway because it’s always good to start with a writer’s more famous works. Plenty of time to explore the backlots later. Mrs Dalloway takes place on a single day in June so it seems appropriate to read this book during June. Feel free to try reading the whole thing in a single day if you feel like a challenge…

9 months ago · 15 likes · 9 comments · Tash

June 12: Read through chapter 21 of The Age of Innocence

June 14: Read first half of Mrs. Dalloway

June 19: Read through chapter 24 of The Age of Innocence

June 26: Read through chapter 28 of The Age of Innocence

June 28: Finish Mrs. Dalloway

July

July 3: Read through chapter 33 of The Age of Innocence

July 10: Read through end of The Age of Innocence

Referenced Substacks

Virginia Woolf Reading Group

A Year in Kafka

Closely Reading (Edith Wharton)

Groups Past or in Progress

Just because they’ve already started, that doesn’t mean you can’t follow along.

The Recovering Academic

Join the Willa Cather Read Along on April 5

Beginning on Friday, April 5, I invite you to join me for a read-along of My Ántonia. We’ll read the Introduction and Book I, Chapters 1-5 for next week. You can find a detailed reading schedule at the end of this post. ⬇️ My plan is to savor My Ántonia…

10 months ago · 26 likes · 21 comments · Joshua Doležal

Personal Canon Formation

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge

In the late summer of 1979, I was nine years old. I had blazed through C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, mostly oblivious to the Christian allegory. (Those of you who read my recent series on Prince and the Icelandic sagas will sense an emerging theme of young Halbrooks completely missing heavy-handed religious messages.) I talked my parents into buyi…

10 months ago · 84 likes · 24 comments · John Halbrooks

Gravity's Rainbow Analysis

Gravity's Rainbow - An Analysis

To me, there has never been a true written analysis of Gravity’s Rainbow that hits the mark. There have been some that have analyzed it on a literary level, some that have discussed its psychological, historical, or social themes, some that even get halfway close, but no one (that I’ve found) has ever done a full written analysis on its true socio-polit…

2 years ago · 15 likes · Andrew

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The Sphinx and Ernest Hemingway

Thaddeus Thomas

April 23, 2024

The sphinx laps at the river in a gully thick with the scent of two young male lions, evicted by a father now wary of the competition. Left alone, they will find another pride, separately or together, kill the elder male and his children, and claim the females for their own. The sphinx ponders this as she flicks her tail like a lioness in heat. She see…

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