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As Stacy Schiff wrote in The New York Times, “A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel; a trailer, a fling, a war ...  View More

Our multi-year adventure reading Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time will be completed with Volume VI: Time Regained. We will continue ...  View More

Music Directors of major classical orchestras imprint their personalities as well as their musical skills as conductors on these organizations. The wo ...  View More

Kurt Vonnegut once said “to open a novel is to arrive in a music hall and be handed a viola. You have to perform...if you can do it, you can go whalin ...  View More

Eliot Ness and Al Capone - both men were sons of immigrants. One lived with his family at 10811 S. Prairie Avenue. The other bought a house at 7244 S. ...  View More

Behavioral Economics is a new field in economics which looks at how psychology, cognition, emotions and other factors affect economic decision-making. ...  View More

Inside its famous covers and beyond the cartoons, The New Yorker magazine is dedicated to quality, topical writings and ideas. Our study group discuss ...  View More

Why write our own stories? Memoir writing may help us document our experiences, revisit old memories, remember the people who have made a difference i ...  View More

Why write our own stories? Memoir writing may help us capture enduring portraits of the people in our lives, recreate with words the landscapes we onc ...  View More