Mechanics' Institute remains closed, but our "Library To Go" service begins July 20th! The no-contact To Go service for materials pickup and returns will be available Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 12-4 p.m. Starting Monday, July 13, members may request items in the library's catalog. Please visit our blog for more information. As always, you still have access to thousands of ebooks, eaudiobooks, and emagazines as well as virtual events, and chess programming online. Thank you for your interest and continued support of Mechanics' Institute.
This four-week course examines the origins and the development of crime fiction (mostly in the English language) since the late eighteenth century.
Whatever you're writing, imagery brings your material to life. Effective imagery goes far beyond flowery description to reveal character, mood, context, tone, setting, and theme. In this immersive workshop, we'll explore how imagery works through short writing exercises and analysis of effective examples. This class is suitable for writers of all levels looking to improve a work in progress or to start something new.
Kate Farrell, author of Story Power, discusses the radical change in storytelling along with contributors to the book who will model their stories.
This course examines one of the lesser-read great Russian novels, Demons (sometimes translated as The Possessed or The Devils), which Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote after returning from political exile in Siberia. We’ll work through this thrilling revolutionary mystery, along the way uncovering Dostoevsky’s political philosophy, and possibly drawing some parallels to our current moment.
