Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Winter 2024
Deep Connections: Narratives of Friendship Explore four recent works of narrative nonfiction centering on the topic of friendship. Discuss what constitutes a transformative friendship, how authors from different genders and backgrounds write about them, how relationships are sustained or honored through challenges such as illness, grief, substance abuse, prejudice, distance, personality or cultural differences, and time, and how authors weave psychology and therapeutic practices into these personal accounts. Please read Let's Take the Long Way Home (2010) by Gail Caldwell before the first class. Subsequent books will be discussed in the following order: The Forgotten Girls (2023) by Monica Potts, How to Know a Person (2023) by David Brooks, and We Should Not Be Friends (2023) by Will Schwalbe. Links to supplemental podcasts, articles, reviews, and interviews will be shared via email. LORI ROTSKOFF is a cultural historian, writer, educator, and public speaker specializing in memoirs and narrative nonfiction, childhood and youth, women’s and gender studies, and arts and culture. She studied history and literature at Northwestern University and earned a PhD in American Studies at Yale. 4 Sessions, starting Thursday, January 18 (class meets on 1/18, 2/15, 3/7, and 4/4) • 11:00am-12:30pm • Westchester Reform Temple • Course 12342 • $140
Book Discussion: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (2020) by Katherine May This elegant memoir centers around finding beauty and solace during a difficult period in British author Katherine May’s life. Over six months, May’s husband falls ill, her anxiety-ridden six-year-old son stops going to school, and she leaves her job as a university lecturer. As she recounts these stressful events, May embraces the rough patches as an inevitable part of nature’s “wintering” cycle, before the next phase in her life. Her ode to retreat invites readers to embrace literal and metaphorical winters and ponder the cold season in a new light. LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Deep Connections”). Wednesday, February 28 • 3:00pm-4:30pm • Online • Course 12431 • $40
Book Discussion: Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver Co-winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Kingsolver's latest success transforms Charles Dickens's Victorian epic, David Copperfield, into a contemporary novel set in southern Appalachia. The son of a teenage unwed mother, the protagonist experiences foster care, drug addiction, poverty, love, and loss, in his journey to adulthood. LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Deep Connections”). Thursday, February 1 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Westchester Reform Temple • Course 12344 • $30 Thursday, February 1 • 2:00pm-3:30pm • Online • Course 12343 • $30
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