Classes & Trips | Politics and Prose Bookstore

CLASSES at Politics and Prose:

Our in-person classes are postponed. Classes are now being offered online. Please see the Classes webpage for listings. All class times are EST.

For direct class inquires please email: classes@politics-prose.com

BOOK GROUPS:

All in-person book group meetings are suspended. Please check the individual book group webpages for online meeting information.

For direct inquires please email: bookgroups@politics-prose.com

TRIPS:

All day trips have been cancelled.

Thank you for your support at this time.

Featured Classes

ONLINE CLASS: Emma Donoghue's Historical Fiction (2123)

Join historical novelist Carrie Callaghan for an insider's look at three wonderful books. This three-session class will focus on the intimate and public in Emma Donoghue's wonderful historical fiction as we closely read her novels The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, and Frog Music. Three Saturdays: March 13, 20, 27, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Online Class.

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ONLINE CLASS: Deep Poetry: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks and Edna St. Vincent Millay (2109)

A deep reading of two of the most formally rigorous, distinctive, and influential women poets of the early twentieth century, with close attention to the diction, voice, music, structure, and form of their major poems. Four Mondays: March 8, 15, 22, 29 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Online Class.

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ONLINE CLASS: Black Female Authorship and British Identities (2137)

This class aims to broaden our idea of what British literature is by looking at the effects of Britain’s history of empire and colonization from WWII to the present as depicted in modern-day classics: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000), Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004), and Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019). Four Wednesdays: March 10, 17, 24, 31, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Online Class.

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