Read like a professor: Anna Karenina

Join us for a six-week guided reading series on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, a sweeping novel about love, marriage, family, faith, and the pressures of Russian society. Each week, you’ll move through the novel with structure, context, and conversation. You’ll understand what’s happening, appreciate why it matters, and experience the book without feeling like you have to figure it all out alone. The Schedule: Over six Monday evenings, we’ll move through the novel in roughly equal sections: September 28: Part 1October 5: Part 2 October 12: Part 3October 19: Part 4 and Part 5, Chapters 1–16October 26: Part 5, Chapter 17 through Part 6November 2: Part 7 and Part 8 We recommend either the Rosamund Bartlett translation or the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. Each two-hour session, from 6–8 p.m., will combine lecture, guided discussion, and close reading of the text. Your Instructor: Theodore Yurevitch The series will be led by Theodore Yurevitch, Associate Professor in the Department of Composition and Literary Studies at Austin Community College. Theo holds an MA in English from Vanderbilt and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida State University. His academic background includes Early Modern English literature, nineteenth-century literature, and the novel. He is especially interested in the way deep reading makes people better writers. The series runs for six weeks:Mondays from 6:00-8:00 p.m.September 28th through November 2ndat The Rosedale Society.