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"A Little Romance: Reading Chekhov to Understand Love"

In this class, we'll first read, in advance, Chekhov's masterpiece, “The Lady with the Pet Dog." Then, in a virtual format, Booker-Prize winning author George Saunders will offer us his take on the story, as he has done since 1997 in his class on the Russian short story in translation, offered to his MFA students - some of the best young writers in America. At the end, we'll have a chance to dive even deeper into this story, through an open Q&A session.

Paying attendees will receive a Zoom invitation days before the event goes live. Saunders rarely teaches a Master Class outside of the University but he joins us for this special Reimagined event.

George Saunders is the author of a novel, four collections of short stories, a novella, and a book of essays. His long-awaited novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, was published in 2017 and helped him earn the Man Booker Prize. Saunders’s collection, Tenth of December, was the winner of the 2014 Story Prize and the 2014 Folio Prize. The recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Genius grant, his work appears regularly in The New Yorker, GQ, and Harpers Magazine, and has appeared in the O’Henry, Best American Short Story, Best Non-Required Reading, and Best American Travel Writing anthologies. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2013.

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Registration required. Visit prattlibrary.org to register. $10: Pay what you can: Donate for more events like this.