Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25
Author Visit: Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Shelby Van Pelt will discuss her best-selling debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures . Narrated by an ornery octopus that is bored and frustrated by his confinement in an aquarium, the book centers around the unlikely bond formed with a 70-year-old widow who works the night shift there as a cleaner and is tormented by her son's disappearance decades ago. Unusual, witty, and absorbing, this heartwarming book is a beautiful exploration of friendship and optimism in spite of loss. SHELBY VAN PELT is the author of Remarkably Bright
Creatures (2022), an instant New York Times Bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. In 2023, she was awarded the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize from The Writer’s Center. Van Pelt's short stories have also appeared in multiple publications. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives near Chicago.
ANNA KATSAVOS , PhD, is an experienced book group facilitator. A SUNY Professor Emerita of English Literature and Women’s Studies, she has received numerous awards for teaching, and her scholarship has been published in a variety of literary journals. She has interviewed many best-selling authors and has presented interactive programs focusing on a wide range of women’s issues. Additionally, she conducts writing, editing and publishing workshops. Monday, September 16 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12788 • $30
Author Visit: Sierra Greer, AnnieBot (2024) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Sierra Greer will discuss her recent best-seller, AnnieBot . This provocative novel explores the increasingly complicated relationship between a female robot and her human owner. Programmed to provide housekeeping and intimacy services to cater to her owner's every need, Annie is placed in autodidactic mode that makes her seem more human as she acquires knowledge. As he tries to shape her into a
misogynist's dream of perfection, her learned emotional intelligence creates conflict between owner and robot. This gripping story explores questions of consent, empowerment, and domestic abuse.
SIERRA GREER grew up in Minnesota before attending Williams College and Johns Hopkins University. A former high school English teacher, she writes about the future from her home in rural Connecticut. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022)”). Monday, September 30 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12789 • $30
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