American Literature
Events
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‘The Man Who Changed Colors’
Recording available on YouTubeVideo available at https://youtu.be/ABOczzUs8nQ
Bill Fletcher Jr's 'The Man Who Changed Colors' delves into the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans, Portuguese fascist gangs, and abusive shipyard working conditions. When a dockworker falls to his death under strange circumstances, investigative journalist David Gomes is on the case. His dogged pursuit of the truth puts his life in danger and upends the scrappy Cape Cod newspaper he works for.Free – $12 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
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Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
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Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
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Darkest Los Angeles
Institute for the Radical Imagination NY, United StatesReading GroupDennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality, have never been resolved, only continually papered over, and so they resound today.
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Octavia Butler: ‘Positive Obsession’ and ‘Wild Seed’
Reading GroupAlternate Mondays, Next on December 8, 5-6:30 pm ET Watch for new selections coming soon, featuring Frankenstein and the Chicano Frankenstein. Join us for a new appreciation of Octavia Butler, beginning with Susana M. Morris’s pathbreaking new biography, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler followed by Butler’s prophetic Wild Seed and other ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupAlternate Mondays, next on June 15, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more
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Get blood and consciousness moving with “Ring Shout”
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupNext on Monday August 31, 5-6:30 pm ET for Ring Shout Reading Science Fiction Politically, Midterms edition explores climate crisis, artificial intelligence in politics, a reawakened Klan, and more by way of four recent novels and selected short stories. Our next book, Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Cleark, poses a well-timed question: consider with us, what ... Read more
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Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupOctober Selection for the Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group Alternate Mondays, Next on October 12, at 5 pm ET "It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, ... Read more
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