Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2025
Author Visit: Elizabeth Harris, How to Sleep at Night (2025) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Elizabeth Harris, a New York Times reporter, will discuss her timely debut novel, How to Sleep at Night (2025). The protagonists are a married gay couple with different political party affiliations and beliefs. After the Republican half of the duo decides to run for Congress with his husband’s consent, the drama unfolds in their relationship.
ELIZABETH HARRIS is an award-winning reporter at The New York Times , where she covers books and the publishing industry. How To Sleep At Night is her first novel. She lives in New York City. 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.
Wednesday, April 2 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 13155 • $30
Author Visit and Book Discussion: Beena Kamlani, The English Problem (2025) Meet Beena Kamlani, whose extraordinary debut novel The English Problem came out on January 29, 2025. Set against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement, protagonist Shiv Advani is selected by Mahatma Gandhi to travel from western India to study law in England for the purpose of returning home better equipped to drive the British colonialists out. Before leaving, his family insists on his betrothal in an arranged marriage. Once in London, Advani's allegiances -- to his family, culture, and politics -- are tested. Beautifully written in understated prose, this tender saga illustrates one man's personal liberation as it also shows the multifaceted relationship between British and Indian culture and the impact of Gandhi's nonviolent resistance.
BEENA KAMLANI is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review , Ploughshares , World Literature Today , several short story anthologies, and other publications. She received the Yeovil Fiction Award (Somerset,
England), for a novel in progress in 2017. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. She has worked as a senior editor at the Penguin Group and taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades, earning their award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel. Monday, April 21 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Shaarei Tikvah • Course 13149 • $30
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