Our Candlelight Chat this Sunday: Want to spend an hour with the most popular professor at Northwestern University?

Please join us! This SUNDAY, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom.

Professor Gary Saul Morson, in action

Dear all,

I am so excited and honored to announce that this Sunday, from 1-2 pm EST, I’ll host our next Candlelight Chat, with special guest Gary Saul Morson—the most popular, and spellbinding, professor at Northwestern University.

GSM is a famous scholar of Russian literature, and he will interpret it for you in a way that will bring new meaning and insight into your life. You do NOT have to have read any Russian literature in order to love this conversation - indeed I have read very little, yet I read GSM all the time, and listen to his interviews any chance I get. His classes at Northwestern are packed with students hungry to learn about literature—but, more urgently, about their own lives.

Please mark your calendars! This event will be on Zoom, and we’ll send out log-in instructions this Saturday (the day before the event).

We’ll also send out a recording, a week after the event, to all paid and scholarship subscribers.

If you’d like to join us for the Candlelight Chat, but are not yet a paid member of The Quiet Life, you can subscribe here, or email us for a scholarship if needed. No one should decline to join for reasons of financial challenge.

GSM, in his library

Here’s what to expect this Sunday:

As always, we’ll begin by lighting our candles, and with a benediction from me.

Then I’ll interview GSM, after which you’ll have a chance to interact with him directly, either in writing or live — your choice.

Here are some of the questions we’ll discuss:

*How Russian literature can change your life.

*The meaning of the first sentence of Anna Karenina: “All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

*Why Tolstoy believed that the high passion of “Romeo and Juliet” is a dangerous form of love, and a kind of enemy of the truest and highest forms of love;

and much, much more.

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Years ago, my friend, the writer Emily Esfahani Smith, introduced me to GSM’s work, which I promptly fell in love with. EES (as I call her) and I now trade his articles back and forth. Somewhere along the way, GSM (as I sometimes call him) became pen pals. And so it is my great honor and pleasure to talk to him live, for the first time, and to bring him to YOU.

I’m so excited for this one, and really hope you’ll join us.