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Bake Cookies, Eat Cuban Food, and Zoom with Aaron in Portland, ME

Please join the Hadassah x MJM Book club at the JCA for a virtual AND in-person event inspired by Hotel Cuba! The event will kick off at 4 PM with a Mojito cookie bake (inspired by the torticas de Morón – Cuban shortbread cookies- that Pearl craves in the book). While our cookies bake, we […]

Read Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy Barton Novels with Aaron in an online class for Politics and Prose

Politics & Prose

In four shimmering, taut novels, author Elizabeth Strout has charted the life of Lucy Barton, a character whose personal struggles intersect increasingly with questions of history. In this class, we'll read Strout's highly acclaimed "Lucy" books in order to chart the journey of this iconic fictional character. We'll also consider the evolution of Strout's style […]

$140

Write Your Story, an Online Class via Maine Media Workshops

This workshop is geared toward participants who are working on stories based on autobiographical material, whether in the form of a memoir or work of fiction. Together, we will look at examples from published work for inspiration, try out writing exercises to hone our revision skills at both the macro and micro levels, and then […]

Mandel Jewish Community Center

Aaron presents Hotel Cuba in this online event with Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika, March 19, at 7:30pm ET.

Delving Deeper Into Character with Iota Workshops

In this two-hour course, we’ll tackle the problem of characterization head-on by discussing vital aspects of building memorable character portraits. Do you have trouble making the people you’re writing about in your fiction and non-fiction feel as real on the page as they do in life? We’ll look at examples from published writing in varied […]