Welcome, members.

You are reading with other members. Everything is here: this week’s classes, the library of recordings, the Thursday Reading Group, and the January vote. Come to what you like. Read ahead, or come fresh.

Open the library Reading guides

This week

Live classes are Monday through Thursday at 12:00 p.m. Pacific: 50 minutes of lecture (recorded), then 10 minutes of live questions (not recorded). Every lecture is added to the library.

MonThe Art of Reading12:00 p.m. Pacific Join live TueShakespeareMacbeth, 12:00 p.m. Pacific Join live WedHomerThe Odyssey, 12:00 p.m. Pacific Join live ThuDanteInferno, 12:00 p.m. Pacific Join live ThuReading GroupThursdays, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Pacific Join live ThuThursday Night LiveNovember 12, December 10, January 14 · 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Pacific Join live

Reading Group changes: Tuesday, November 24 (Thanksgiving week) and Tuesdays, December 22 and 29 (winter break), all at the usual time. On Thursday, November 26 (Thanksgiving) the lecture arrives as a recording. On November 12, December 10 and January 14, join Thursday Night Live instead.

Can’t come live? Send a question ahead and I’ll answer it in the recorded lecture, or write back to you directly.

Book your tutorial

An hour of private conversation with me about whatever you’re reading.

Book your hour

Tutorials are held on the Friday before each weekend seminar: November 13, December 11 and January 15, between 9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Pacific (12:00 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern). The booking page shows times in your own time zone. If none of them suit you, write to me and we’ll find another.

No tutorial yet? Write to me and I’ll add one to your membership.

Calendar

Every live session this season. Add it to your calendar to see it in your own time zone.

Descent, reckoning, emergence

November

Descent

MonWays of Reading
TueMacbeth
WedThe Odyssey
ThuInferno

December

Reckoning

MonThe Practice of Reading
TueThe Tempest
WedThe poems of Sappho
ThuPurgatorio

January

Emergence

MonThe Art of Rereading
TueMembers’ choice
WedUlysses
ThuParadiso

January vote

Choose January’s Shakespeare play.

Click one to vote by November 30. The winner is announced here.

The Winter’s TaleThe one that ends in emergence Antony and CleopatraTwo lovers and an empire, and a death that opens out Twelfth NightShipwreck, disguise, and a new start

Suggest a text for a future month.

Weekend seminars, free for members

WeekendDante’s Inferno and Alice in WonderlandNovember 14–15 · 1:00–3:00 p.m. PacificOn descent: a dark wood and a rabbit hole.Sign upThe Tao Te ChingDecember 12–13 · 1:00–3:00 p.m. PacificOn reckoning: what remains when we let go.Sign upRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and Audre Lorde’s “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”January 16–17 · 1:00–3:00 p.m. PacificOn emergence: finding the words.Sign up

Bring a friend. Every member may bring one friend to any weekend seminar, free. Add their name when you sign up.

Open a place for a scholarship reader. Give any amount you like, once or monthly.

Your membership. Manage or cancel your membership anytime. Questions? carolynsinsky@gmail.com.