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A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes (Vintage, 1990) is called “A Novel” on the cover, though it little resembles most novelistic ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/05/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/5/2023-12/5/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Have you ever stood before an Edward Hopper painting and wondered about the story it tells? Join us as we imagine the untold stories within various pa ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/05/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/5/2023-10/17/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Have you read any Dickens lately? If you haven’t, Barbara Kingsolver has. This study group will begin with Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield, a first ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/05/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (9/5/2023-10/17/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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This British Mystery Writers study group will focus on the male authors who wrote in the same period as the Queens of Mystery - Agatha Christie, Dorot ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/07/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/7/2023-10/19/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Reading from the Great Books Conversations' collections extends our awareness that great writers share in a dialog across time, place, and culture. Di ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/07/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/7/2023-12/7/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff wrote in The New York Times, "A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a no ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/11/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/11/2023-12/11/2023)

Closed
 
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In this study group we will read and discuss selections from the works of two gifted, highly regarded, but very different travel writers - A.A. Gill a ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/11/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/11/2023-10/23/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Mysteries can take many forms including books that focus on a complicated puzzle, a locked room, a cozy, a hard-boiled murder, or a police procedural. ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 10/26/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (10/26/2023-12/7/2023)

Closed
 
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