Short story, book, and film discussion classes are scattered throughout the year to give you ample time for pleasure reading and viewing between each one. Pick a course or two to suit your literary tastes and register today!

Author Visit: Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal's Mistress (2025)

Monday, June 2 • 11:00am-12:15pm • Zoom •

Course 13159 • $30

In conversation with Anna Katsavos, prolific author Chris Bohjalian returns to SAS to discuss his latest novel, The Jackal's Mistress (2025). Inspired by a real-life friendship, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she is willing to risk for the life of a stranger. With territorial control over the Shenandoah Valley in a constant state of flux during the Civil War, the brutal violence of the landscape serves as the backdrop for this emotional and poignant story of humanity.

Book Discussion with Roya Hakakian: Immigrant Chronicles

Author Roya Hakakian leads three book discussions of her own works that address issues of exile, displacement, political and religious persecution, and the struggles against authoritarianism. Each session may be taken individually. For an optimal experience, register for all three classes at once to save $15: Immigrant Chronicles Series  • $105

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran (2004)

Wednesday, June 4 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Shaarei Tikvah • Course 13342 • $40

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (2011)

Wednesday, July 16 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Shaarei Tikvah • Course 13343 • $40

A Beginner’s Guide to America (2021)

Wednesday, August 8 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Shaarei Tikvah • Course 13344 • $40

Author Visit: Andrew Porwancher

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (2025)

Wednesday, June 11 • 7:00pm-8:15pm • Zoom •

Course 13337 • $30

Professor Andrew Porwancher returns to SAS to uncover the close-knit and often surprising relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Jewish community. This lecture traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led. Drawing on fresh research from his newest book, American Maccabee, Porwancher explores the complicated relationship between the leader of a youthful nation and the people of an ancient faith.

Author Visit: Rumaan Alam

Entitlement (2024)

Monday, June 16 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom •

Course 13161 • $30

In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Rumaan Alam will discuss his latest novel, Entitlement (2024). This fourth book by the author of the acclaimed Leave the World Behind (2020) has been named to many 2024 top book lists. Entitlement is about money, race, identity, privilege, class, and consumption. Set in pre-pandemic New York City, Brooke, the inexperienced Black female protagonist is hired by an old white billionaire to manage his philanthropy. Brooke's proximity to extreme wealth soon triggers her metamorphosis as she succumbs to the seductions of money and greed.

Author Visit: Eleanor Wilde

June in the Garden (2025)

Tuesday, June 17 • 7:00pm-8:15pm •

Scarsdale Public Library • 

Course 13336 • $30

Meet Eleanor Wilde, known until now as an author of YA literature, for a discussion of her debut adult novel, June in the Garden (2025). Seen through the eyes of a young woman comforted by and able to function thanks to a rigid adherence to her daily routines, this fiction follows June as she struggles to forge a new life after the unexpected death of her mother. Promptness, order, consistency, and gardening were the rituals that had kept June afloat. Now forced to find a new place to live, she seeks out her birth father and secretly moves into a shed in his London backyard where she unexpectedly forms a secret friendship with her half-brother. Time will be reserved for Q&A.

Due out on 6/17/25, books will be available for sale and signing.

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