Chance Meetings: Colm Tóibín on Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner” + Special Pricing

The Authors Guild Foundation is excited to present Chance Meetings, a new online literary seminar inspired by Rachel Cohen’s A Chance Meeting, a dazzling group biography that offers a striking vision of the making and remaking of the American mind and imagination from the Civil War to the Vietnam War.

We are pleased to announce that our customers can attend at a special price of $25 per ticket, instead of the regular price of $40. Check out the official page on the Authors Guild website, select the online seminar you'd like to attend, and enter the code CMDISC at checkout to get your special price.

The next seminar will occur on June 10 at 12:30 PM EST, where novelist and critic Colm Tóibín, who conjured Henry James in The Master, will discuss “The Jolly Corner,” one of James’s last works of fiction and the last to be set in New York, the city of his birth.

“In this story, written after his American sojourn of 1905, Henry James found a new doubled self to dramatize: the man who had left New York and lived in England, and his double, still haunting him, who had never left, who still wandered those same rooms which would fill James’s autobiography and had filled his novel Washington Square,” writes Tóibín. “In its intensity and stark imagery, ‘The Jolly Corner’ is one of James’s most autobiographical works, dealing with matters that are haunting and unresolved.”

Learn more about Chance Meetings and the seminar schedule here.