Anna DiMartino
Tuesdays, 4–5:30 PM
May 7 & June 11
La Jolla Studio
$10/15 for each session
Are you an avid reader or would you like to read more? Would you like to read more thoughtfully? Are you intellectually curious and longing to be with a group of like-minded folks?
Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for the Happiest Hour (or two). We engage in lively and thought-provoking discussion on award-winning (or nominated) literature, primarily fiction. Wine and snacks provided.
May 7: How to be both: A novel by Ali Smith (2015)
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.
How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else.
June 11: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (2022)
From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.
“An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge.”—Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds
Immediately after you register, look for a confirmation email and receipt. In the week preceding the class start date, you will receive another email with more details.
COVID-19 policy for in-person classes:
Masks optional. If you have a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, please stay home.
Please note that our policy may change as new guidelines and recommendations become available. The safety of our students, faculty, and staff continues to be our highest priority.