Cornwall Reads Great Fiction
Anna Karenina with Roxana Robinson

We wish to send our greatest appreciation to Cornwall author Roxana Robinson as the leader of this popular event. If you’d like to remember this series with a work of hers, signed and inscribed to you, these are available from the House of Books in Kent, Connecticut.

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Author and Cornwall resident Roxana Robinson will lead a discussion of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, for 9 weeks, January 12 through March 9, 2021, from 4 to 5:30pm. Each week Roxana Robinson will read from the text and discuss a section of the novel. All are welcome – if you have read the book years ago or if you have never started it, join us in exploring this rich and compelling work.

Roxana Robinson is the author of 9 books of fiction and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is President Emeritus of the Authors Guild and teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. www.roxanarobinson.com

Class is free and open to all, but donations are welcome. Suggested amount: $20.

Participants should plan to read 100 pages a week; we will be using the translation by James Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The reading guide and weekly preparation can be downloaded here.

Previous classes available on YouTube:

Session One: Introduction January 12, 2021

Session Two: Part One January 19, 2021

Session Three: Part Two January 26, 2021

Session Four: Part Three February 2, 2021

Session Five: Part Four February 9, 2021

Session Six: Part Five February 16, 2021

Session Six: Part Six February 23, 2021

Session Six: Part Seven March 2, 2021

Session Six: Part Eight March 9, 2021