1st Wednesdays at the Goodrich Memorial Library in Newport

Rethinking the classics with Ilan Stavens.

How does a book become a literary classic? And what do the classics say about who we are? Author Ilan Stavens meditates on how literary classics become the collective memory of a culture and suggests that as society changes so must our literary canon.

This event will be held remotely: register for this talk at vermonthumanities.org/newport