Brilliant Minds

Murdoch and The Sea, The Sea

Here are a few additional perspectives on Murdoch and The Sea, The Sea:

At the Guardian: Booker club: The Sea, the Sea (to read) & The Digested Read with John Crace (link to audio)

At the Paris Review: The Art of Fiction, No. 117 (on craft)

Makeup Class

We will be having our makeup class for the evening Brilliant Minds section on Wednesday 12/14, same time and location. We'll be reading and discussing Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea.

Class Cancellation

This Wednesday's (11/23) evening class is cancelled. Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday and see you next week!

In the meantime, here is the correct Reading List for Spring 2012:

• Homer: The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
• Sappho: Poems, trans. Barnstone (Shambhala)
• Euripides: The Bacchae, trans. Williams (Farrar Straus Giroux)
• Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, trans. Coghill (Penguin)
• Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ed. Crewe (Pelican)
• Austen: Mansfield Park, ed. Sutherland (Penguin)
• Whitman: Leaves of Grass, ed. Hollander (Library of America)
• Synge: The Playboy of the Western World (Dover)
• Forster: A Passage to India, ed. Stallybrass (Penguin)
• White: Voss (Penguin)

Download BMS2012_list (click for a printable PDF version)

Poetic Amusement - Reviewed

American Book Review has just published a glowing review of Ray Hammond's Poetic Amusement. I've been mentioning Ray's work in this book, especially his theory of the Muse, for years. Read what reviewer Daniel Leary has to say in the online version at Project Muse.

Arcadia is Sold Out!

We're now sold out for Arcadia - Review & Reflections! Thanks so much for the strong interest!

Arcadia - Review & Reflections, Registration

Registration is now open for Arcadia - Review & Reflections. Please click here to go to the Athanata Arts, Ltd. blog where you can register via PayPal. 

Arcadia - Review & Reflections - June 29th

Tom Stoppard's theatrical masterpiece, Arcadia, runs through June 19th in NYC. Join me for a Review & Reflections on this classic of 20th Century theatre.

Hold the Date & Time: June 29th, 12 - 3pm

Registration details & location to follow!

 

Brilliant Minds - Fall 2011

Here's our reading list for Fall 2011:

• Confucius: The Analects, trans. 
Dawson (Oxford) 
• Petronius: The Satyricon, trans. Walsh (Oxford) 
• Fielding: Tom Jones, ed. Bender (Oxford) 
• Shakespeare: Othello, ed. McDonald (Pelican) 
• Mill: On Liberty, ed. Ryan (Penguin) 
• Turgenev: Fathers and Sons, trans. Freeborn (Oxford) 
• Wharton: The House of Mirth, ed. Banta (Oxford) 
• Murdoch: The Sea, The Sea, ed. Kinzie (Penguin) 
• Franzen: The Corrections (Picador)

You can download a printable PDF version here:  Download BMF2011_List

Elizabeth Bowen Stories

Some of you have asked me which stories of Elizabeth Bowen to read for our upcoming discussion. The stories to concentrate on are:

"Summer Night"

"Her Table Spread"

"The Demon Lover"

"The Happy Autumn Fields"

"A Day in the Dark"

"Tears, Idle Tears"

Enjoy your reading and Happy Holidays to all celebrating this week & weekend.

A Pun to Remember

A "BritLit" grad student, a Moose and Squirrel, and Thou: The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam.