Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Winter 2024
Short Stories Live in Honor of St. Patrick's Day This innovative program combines the immediacy of live performance, insights into classic and contemporary literature, and lively discussions with fellow participants. At this special edition in honor of St. Patrick's Day, watch and listen to an actor perform a themed short story and then engage in interactive conversation. The selection will be disclosed and emailed to students on the day of class for future reference, or in case participants want to follow along. No advance reading is required. LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Deep Connections”). Thursday, March 14 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Online • Course 12345 • $40
Booklover’s Roundtable of What to Read Next
Designed for avid readers and bibliophiles who are always on the lookout for their next new book, whether in print, e-book, or audible format, this informative presentation unveils a “baker’s dozen” of book suggestions to take you through the cozy months of winter and into the spring, including fiction, memoir, and non-fiction titles. “Show and tell style,” students may share recommendations with the group and engage in a discussion about their own recent literary favorites.
LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Deep Connections”). Wednesday, March 6 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Online • Course 12437 • $25
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Intruder in the Dust
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Written in only six weeks yet containing 15 different point of view characters, William Faulkner’s As I LayDying is perhaps the most innovative modernist shorter novel. It is also a story of family, loss, conflict, and resilience that is at once very specific to its time and place but also resonates still in all sorts of ways. Read this novel along with Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust , a farmore accessible murder mystery that foresees the end of racial segregation in the South. NICHOLAS BIRNS is an adjunct instructor at NYU, has taught at several other institutions in the New York area, and has lectured abroad in Sweden, Australia, and China. He covers classic and contemporary fiction as well as the major works of Western and world literature, on which he has written many books and articles, most recently co-editing The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel (Cambridge University Press) and authoring The Hyperlocal In Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space (Lexington). He has contributed to The New York Times Book Review , Modernism/Modernity , Modern Language Quarterly , Partial Answers , and Studies in Romanticism . 3 Sessions, starting Thursday, January 11 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Online • Course 12424 • $90
Crime and Punishment (1866) was the first of Dostoevsky's four truly great novels and also, arguably, founded several modern genres, ranging from the psychological study to the urban noir to the detective story. In telling the story of the anguished Raskolnikov and the way he teeters between being noble soul and depraved criminal, Dostoevsky also portrayed an entire community in search of meaning. Disentangle the mysteries of this novel, which is both wrenching and humorous, satirical and scolding. Please use Michael R. Katz’s superbly fluid and accessible new translation (Norton 2019). NICHOLAS BIRNS (see bio for “William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Intruder in the Dust ”). 3 Sessions, starting Thursday, March 7 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Online • Course 12436 • $90
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