Promotional slide for the February, 2026 marathon reading of The Old Curiosity Shop.
"[W]e zoomed in the great, great, great granddaughter of Dickens, Lucinda Huxley. And so that was kind of a thrill. And she's connected with the Dickens Museum... [S]he had just met like a week or so before with the London program and they were reading all of her twists and they went to ... the Dickens Museum. And so that was a really nice thing that we had, that transatlantic connection."
-Michael Kowalewski
"We had a visiting prof in the fall [of 2025], Tim Burberry, who did the Tolkien Herbert class... [O]n his own, he organized one for The Hobbit. And that was in the fall. But that is a much shorter book. And so it was basically the class kind of and then a few people that joined in, but they didn't need as many people. So, you know, it worked."
-Michael Kowalewski
