Read Like a Writer Craft Talk Book Club — an experience designed like an MFA-level reading analysis and annotation course. Every other month on second Tuesdays at Lake Lit, 5:30-7:30 PM.

$120 for the whole four-course session; registration required. There will be additional short story, essay, and poem reading assignments in addition to the chosen book for each meeting. These meetings are meant to build on one another, like a master class in writing craft, and required reading will include some of the last couple centuries’ best examples of writing in multiple genres.

Dates and books for 2025:

● August 12: Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

● October 14: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

● December 9: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf AND The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Limited to 6 participants.

Read Like a Writer Craft Talk Book Club — an experience designed like an MFA-level reading analysis and annotation course. Every other month on second Tuesdays at Lake Lit, 5:30-7:30 PM.

$120 for the whole four-course session; registration required. There will be additional short story, essay, and poem reading assignments in addition to the chosen book for each meeting. These meetings are meant to build on one another, like a master class in writing craft, and required reading will include some of the last couple centuries’ best examples of writing in multiple genres.

Dates and books for 2025:

● August 12: Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

● October 14: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

● December 9: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf AND The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Limited to 6 participants.

Read Like a Writer Craft Talk Book Club — an experience designed like an MFA-level reading analysis and annotation course. Every other month on second Tuesdays at Lake Lit, 5:30-7:30 PM.

$120 for the whole four-course session; registration required. There will be additional short story, essay, and poem reading assignments in addition to the chosen book for each meeting. These meetings are meant to build on one another, like a master class in writing craft, and required reading will include some of the last couple centuries’ best examples of writing in multiple genres.

Dates and books for 2025:

● August 12: Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

● October 14: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

● December 9: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf AND The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Limited to 6 participants.

Read Like a Writer Craft Talk Book Club — an experience designed like an MFA-level reading analysis and annotation course. Every other month on second Tuesdays at Lake Lit, 5:30-7:30 PM.

$120 for the whole four-course session; registration required. There will be additional short story, essay, and poem reading assignments in addition to the chosen book for each meeting. These meetings are meant to build on one another, like a master class in writing craft, and required reading will include some of the last couple centuries’ best examples of writing in multiple genres.

Dates and books for 2025:

● August 12: Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

● October 14: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

● December 9: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf AND The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Limited to 6 participants.

Read Like a Writer Craft Talk Book Club — an experience designed like an MFA-level reading analysis and annotation course. Every other month on second Tuesdays at Lake Lit, 5:30-7:30 PM.

$120 for the whole four-course session; registration required. There will be additional short story, essay, and poem reading assignments in addition to the chosen book for each meeting. These meetings are meant to build on one another, like a master class in writing craft, and required reading will include some of the last couple centuries’ best examples of writing in multiple genres.

Dates and books for 2025:

● August 12: Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

● October 14: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

● December 9: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf AND The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Limited to 6 participants.

Read Like a Writer Craft Talk Book Club — an experience designed like an MFA-level reading analysis and annotation course. Every other month on second Tuesdays at Lake Lit, 5:30-7:30 PM.

$120 for the whole four-course session; registration required. There will be additional short story, essay, and poem reading assignments in addition to the chosen book for each meeting. These meetings are meant to build on one another, like a master class in writing craft, and required reading will include some of the last couple centuries’ best examples of writing in multiple genres.

Dates and books for 2025:

● August 12: Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

● October 14: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

● December 9: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf AND The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Limited to 6 participants.