Classes begin November 2.

University-level literature classes, live on Zoom and open to everyone.

In November, we’re reading Macbeth, the Odyssey, and the Inferno.

Monday–Thursday, 12 p.m. PacificLive lecture and questions. Lectures are recorded for members
Thursday, 5:30 p.m. PacificReading Group and Thursday Night Live

Become a member for $300 a monthMembership includes every live class, the weekend seminars, and the full library.Founding rate through November 9.

Full and partial scholarships are always available.Come to a free session

Carolyn Sinsky
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What’s coming

Watch live, or follow along with the recordings. Nothing is assigned. Read the whole book as we go, follow each week’s reading guide through select passages, or listen in. Follow one class through the month, or dip into several.

Monfrom Nov 2The Art of ReadingWays of reading, from close and slow reading to reading aloud.

Tuefrom Nov 3ShakespeareMacbeth in November, The Tempest in December, and in January a play chosen by members.

Wedfrom Nov 4Homer, Sappho, and JoyceA new series on the Odyssey in November, Sappho’s poetry in December, Joyce’s Ulysses in January.

Thufrom Nov 5DanteThe Inferno in November, the Purgatorio in December, the Paradiso in January. Come to the first class, free.

Thu evefrom Nov 5Thursday eveningsReading Group at 5:30 p.m. Pacific, a live discussion of the week’s reading.
Once a month, Thursday Night Live takes its place: live poetry, always free and open to everyone. Join us on October 29.

WeekendsWeekend seminarsThree weekends, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Pacific. $150, or free for members. Live lecture and questions. The lecture is recorded and sent to everyone who registers.November 14–15: Dante’s Inferno and Alice in WonderlandDecember 12–13: the Tao Te ChingJanuary 16–17: Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and Lorde’s “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”

Membership

Membership includes:

Every live class
The weekly Reading Group
The weekend seminars
The full library of recordings and reading guides, including earlier courses on the Iliad and the Odyssey

Come to as much or as little as you like. Nothing is required, and you can’t fall behind. Membership is a place to keep reading.

As a founding member, you keep the founding rate for as long as you stay.

Founding rate

$300 a month

Everything listed above. Join by November 9.

Become a founding member

With a monthly tutorial

$450 a month

Everything in membership, plus a monthly one-hour private tutorial with me. Join by November 9.

Join with a tutorial

After November 9, membership is $350 a month, or $500 a month with a tutorial.

Full and partial scholarships are always available, for membership and for tutorials. Ask me about one.

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Thursday Night Live

Rilke and Glück

Thursday, October 29 · 5:30–6:30 p.m. Pacific

Rilke’s “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes” and Louise Glück’s “Persephone the Wanderer.”

The first Dante class

Inferno, Canto I

Thursday, November 5 · 12 p.m. Pacific

The opening of the dark wood. Come and hear how the class works.

Carolyn Sinsky

I teach every class myself, and I love reading these books aloud. We go slowly, line by line, with room for your questions. Come with the book in hand, or come to listen along.

I have a PhD in comparative literature from Yale and have taught literature and writing at Yale and the Fashion Institute of Technology. More about me