In this two-part grown-up book club, we'll have a guided discussion of Philip Roth's "The Ghost Writer" -- a classic Jewish book with a shocking twist. What are an author's obligations to the Jewish community? How sacred is Holocaust memory, in the '70s when Roth was writing and now? Roth was a masterful writer and a complicated person, just like his book. Enjoy a cocktail (or two), a conversation led by writer and MIT professor Courtney Sender, and plenty of socializing. We'll divide the book in half for easy reading!

Dates:

• January 28th, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

• February 11th, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Courtney Sender has taught creative writing at MIT, Tufts, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. Her essays appear in The New York Times' Modern Love, The Atlantic, and Slate, and her stories in Ploughshares, Agni, American Short Fiction, and many others. Her debut book, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me, was called "miraculous" by Ann Patchett, "literary rock 'n' roll" by Aimee Bender, and "a stunner" by Deesha Philyaw. She is also staff writer for the iHeart podcast "Noble Blood." Courtney holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.