✨ London IRL: Book Recommendation Party with Anna and Lucia ✨

London, Barbican

Londoners! Join Lucia Asanache and Interintellect founder Anna Gát in London (Barbican) for a casual hangout and book recommendation party.  Few things build community and friendship as powerfully as a shared love of reading. Join us for a cosy conversation about our favourite books, and leave with a list of recommendations just for you, by…

Free

Experimental Writing: Creative Toolbox Series – Session Two

Online

The blank page can be a fearsome enemy. Writer, teacher and experimenter Char Putney knows this all too well. But we don't have to approach it with too much seriousness — there's never been a more exciting time to play with words. In this 3-part series, we'll get hands-on with experimental writing techniques from many…

$10.00

How to Fail: Coping With Professional Rejection

Online

As a veteran of over twenty years of artistic rejection, including by some of the most prestigious publications and theatres around, the writer and comedian James Harris considers himself an expert in coping with failure. In this workshop, he'll share what he's learnt and try to help you deal with your own setbacks better. This…

$10.00

Experimental Writing: Creative Toolbox Series – Session Three

The blank page can be a fearsome enemy. Writer, teacher and experimenter Char Putney knows this all too well. But we don't have to approach it with too much seriousness — there's never been a more exciting time to play with words. In this 3-part series, we'll get hands-on with experimental writing techniques from many…

$10.00

*MEMBERS ONLY* Community Chats | Reading

Interintellect Community Manager Nicky Buttigieg hosts a casual hangout to chat about what we've been reading. Let's talk about what we've been spending our time reading—books, poems, blog posts, newsletterism whatever you've been enjoying and curious about! *** 🗓 ii Calendar | 📋 Code of Conduct | 📚 Become a Member

Free

The End of the English Major: How Tik-Tok Brain is in Conflict with the Humanities

Online

The English Major is disappearing, should we let it die? What are the root causes behind this and how might it find a place in the future, if its even worth saving? Join Brent Lucia on this discussion. As a once English studies graduate student, I have a stake in this conversation, but I'm curious…

Free

Art and Exploration: Radical Self-Healing with Tao Lin

Online

Tao and Ava will be talking about his critically praised fourth novel, an "artful, radical" book in which the main character rejects Western medicine, experiments with psychedelics, spends time with his parents, and takes 500,000 words worth of notes. Come join them to discuss themes including: Tao's writing process and how it has evolved over…

$20.00

Quizbowl: A New Kind of Trivia

Online

Trivia always has potential, but it's tricky to get right. Often, the idea of trivia is more fun than trivia itself. For starters, it's hard to make trivia feel fair. The winner is often decided by arbitrary factors, like the question topics preferred by the host or the fastest player at the buzzer. But even…

$10.00

Canceled James Baldwin in the City of Lights

Online

Though James Baldwin spent much of his life in France, few people know about the early days in Paris that inspired perhaps the greatest love story about life in Paris, Giovanni's Room. From his conversations in the Latin Quarter with French existentialists and Algerian revolutionaries to his travels to the South of France, this seminar…

$15.00

Laughing At, With, and Against Evil: Phil Klay on Humor and Darkness in Literature

Online

National Book Award winning author Phil Klay joins fellow veteran writer and technologist Sean Patrick Hughes to discuss the positive role of comedy in writing about the darkest topics.  While humor is a part of art, it rings most true because it is a part of life. Moments of levity are intractably woven through us…

$20.00

Community Chats | Reading

Online

Nicky Buttigieg hosts a members-only hangout to chat about what we've been reading. Let's talk about what we've been spending our time reading—books, poems, blog posts, newsletters, whatever you've been enjoying and curious about! *** 🗓 ii Calendar | 📋 Code of Conduct | 📚 Become a Member

Free