In this Interintellect salon, Hollis Robbins invites you to consider reading poetry. Especially if you're not a regular poetry reader (yet!) Are you secretly insecure about poetry? Wish you could tell what makes a good poem "good," a great poem "great," and a bad poem "bad" (it is not just a matter of opinion)? Don't know the…
Jaycel Adkins in his debut invites you to a new Interintellect reading salon, where we will together experience one of Elena Ferrante’s “tactile and sensual, visceral and dizzying”* first novels: “The Days of Abandonment” on May 30th. “One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me. He did it while…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 5, we discuss deliberate modifications to human psychology. What if we could affect the way we perceive attractiveness, or the way we remember things? Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though…
In these Interintellect workshop salons, Sylvia R helps us to master the art of short fiction – by reading some of the greatest short story writers and applying their techniques. In this session, we’ll start reading “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”, George Saunders’s literary masterclass on what makes great stories work (based on the nineteenth-century…
In this salon, Interintellect Timothy Wilcox hosts a reading of James Joyce's famously dense and mysterious book Finnegan's Wake. One of the most challenging – and yet, also one of the most alluring – books of all time is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. In a defense of the novel (then still Work in Progress), Samuel Beckett…
In this special Salon fellow Interintellects Thomas Arnold and Isabela Granic lead a discussion about the poem "Aubade" by Philip Larkin. In this salon we start not with a set…
Interintellect host Timothy Wilcox invites you join in celebrating Bloomsday in New York to honour James Joyce. Bloomsday is June 16 (next Wednesday), commemorating the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set. Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom around Dublin, making his way back to his wife, Molly, whose love must be reborn after the two suffered…
After an exciting members-only version of this event, on June 17 we will gather again to welcome all our friends to an Interintellect Book Recommendation Party! Your salon host will be Anna Gát, founder of the ii. LIMITED TICKETS! How it works: In the safe, friendly, unrecorded format of the Interintellect salon, you will be invited…
Educator Raffi Grinberg facilitates a discussion on practical lessons about how to live a fulfilling life from W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. This literary masterpiece about growing into adulthood is shockingly relevant 100+ years later, and has deep, practical lessons to teach us about not falling in love with the wrong person, why…
In this Interintellect salon, Taylor Pullinger will host a conversation with Erik Hoel, inspired his recently published novel The Revelations. " Somewhere, lost in that tower of Babel, that library of Borges, was the theory of consciousness. The one and only correct theory an infinitesimal needle in an infinite haystack. To see a glimpse… It would fit…
“How would Kurt Vonnegut describe what I’m going through?” is one question anyone could ask in times of trouble and peril, knowing the result would be at once honest, compassionate, hilarious, and optimistic. This salon, hosted by Eyal Shay, will be a place for participants to become familiar with a real-life hero and reflect on…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 6 — which you can join even if you haven't attended the previous parts — we discuss intelligence enhancement and superintelligence. Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he cannot be…
