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SUMMARY:Spring Semester with Mark Schenker: Books About Books (Zoom)
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Mark Schenker’s six-part Spring 2026 lite
 rary series in which we’ll look at “Books About Books” covering read
 ings from 1953 to 2021.Our books, whose authors are three Americans, two I
 talians, and one Irish writer, include a sci-fi dystopian novel, a graphic
  memoir, a medieval murder mystery set in an Italian monastery, and a post
 modernist novel that challenges our expectations of what it means to read 
 a book.And Mark emphasizes that by “books” he envisions his series to 
 include literature in all its dimensions: not just the works we find in th
 e Wilton Library, but written works as manuscripts, artifacts…and even t
 he act of reading itself.The schedule is as follows:3/4 – Fahrenheit 451
  by Ray Bradbury (1953)3/18 – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Be
 chdel (2006)4/8 – History of the Rain by Naill Williams (2014)4/29 – T
 he Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)5/20 – If on a Winter’s Night
 , a Traveler by Italo Calvino (1981)6/10 – Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony 
 Doerr (2021)No charge for the program. These lectures are made possible wi
 th the support of the Literary Series in Memory of Amy Quigley. Advance re
 gistration required. Register online or call 203-762-6334. You will automa
 tically be registered for all six sessions.Mark J. Schenker, having served
  in various decanal roles in Yale College since 1990, retired last year. A
  former lecturer in the English Department, he received his Ph.D. from Col
 umbia University with a concentration in 19th-century and early 20th-centu
 ry English Literature. He had taught previously at Columbia, New York Univ
 ersity, and Trinity College (Hartford, CT). Outside of academia, Mark has 
 for over 35 years lectured on literature and film, and has led book discus
 sion series in more than 100 venues in Connecticut, including public libra
 ries, museums, and cultural centers. He also conducts monthly sessions for
  a number of private reading groups in the state. In 2001, he received the
  Wilbur Cross Award for Outstanding Humanities Scholar, presented by the C
 onnecticut Humanities Council.
URL:https://wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/spring-semester-mark-schenker
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