Richard Estes, Marguerite Yourcenar, Oil on canvas, 1985, 95 by 45½ centimeters, FNAC 35381, Centre national des arts plastiques Dépôt du Centre national des arts plastiques au Sénat depuis 2009, ©Richard Estes/CNAP. Courtesy of the artist

February book: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

With special guest Carl Little, author of the 2018 Chebacco article, “Marguerite Yourcenar: Piranesi at Petite Plaisance”

To sign up for the February meeting, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqde-qrTssEtAlbin4Jrnsfz4f5nw0PwUT

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Book Club is an online community gathering to discuss books by MDI authors or with local settings, using literature as an entry-point to regional history. The Society provides MDI-specific historical context to bring the novels to life, such as sharing relevant artifacts from the collection, sound bites from oral histories, and photographs or slides of the book’s people and places. 

Copies of Memoirs of Hadrian are available at MDI libraries, on Bookshop.org, and there's a Kindle version.

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