Literature   

The Virtual Book Exchange SIG at OLLI meets on Zoom. This workshop is an in-person version. Come to the workshop with actual books or your experience of books that you’ve enjoyed. Each participant will share something about the book, and others may chime in with opinions. The facilitator will take notes and create a book list to send to participants after the workshop. Book chatter, casual chatter, and camaraderie! New in-person workshop. Format includes discussion.

Short stories provide readers with a one-sitting (usually) read; we’ll explore two stories each week (except for week 1) and discuss them to our hearts’ content. The multiplicity of views brought to discussion by participants is always invigorating. Join an enthusiastic group of readers to share ideas and enjoy each other’s company. Summer term book: The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, Edited by Amor Towles. (Don’t be fooled by the O. Henry Prize — these will not necessarily provide us with twists at the end, and they are, according to the Atlantic Monthly, “Widely regarded as the nation’s’ most prestigious awards for short fiction.”)

Repeat in-person course with new content. Format includes discussion.
REQUIRED BOOK: The Best Short Stories 2024, edited by Amor Towles, ISBN 9780593470619

Short stories provide readers with a one-sitting (usually) read; we’ll explore two stories each week (except for week 1) and discuss them to our hearts’ content. The multiplicity of views brought to discussion by participants is always invigorating. Join an enthusiastic group of readers to share ideas and enjoy each other’s company. Summer term book: The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, Edited by Amor Towles. (Don’t be fooled by the O. Henry Prize — these will not necessarily provide us with twists at the end, and they are, according to the Atlantic Monthly, “Widely regarded as the nation’s’ most prestigious awards for short fiction.”)

Repeat in-person course with new content. Format includes discussion.
REQUIRED BOOK: The Best Short Stories 2024, edited by Amor Towles, ISBN 9780593470619

You probably have a favorite poem or two or twelve that have stayed with you like a loyal friend over the years. Would you like to share these with like-minded classmates? Read them out loud? Discuss what they meant and still mean to you? Hear what others have for favorite poems and what they mean to them? We will loosely divide our favorites into subgroups such as: poems that entrance, poems that teach, poems that protest, poems that intoxicate, poems that soothe broken hearts, poems that delight. No one’s a poetry expert! We’re just sharing what we love.

New in-person course. Format includes discussion.