Once again, Literary Arts has impressed me by improving one of my favorite programs that they offer. If you haven’t tried Delve, you really should. I’ve only done one of the seminars (Virginia Woolf’s The Waves a few years ago), but it was amazing and I really need to do another.
It made me nervous at first because it smacked so much of college. They bring in smarty-pants professors and pick sometimes challenging books (Hello! The Waves?!). But it’s not like that at all. First of all, everyone really wants to be there, so they’re all excited and geeking out over the book (not sullen and hungover from the rugby party the night before). Second, the professor is actually referred to as a “guide.” It becomes less of a classroom and more of a really, really good book club. There definitely are no stupid questions. And no wrong answers.
Well… There are sometimes wrong answers. But no panic about writing a paper. Bonus!
And the improvement? Now you can go out drinking at a bar while discussing the book! Brilliant! Delve Over Drinks is offering two options this season. William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and one over graphic novels. Can you imagine? A mild-mannered business man and a soccer mom have a couple of glasses of wine and get into over whether or not Becky was genuinely calling the shots or just a female struggling to make her way in a man’s world. Proactive or reactive? Red or white?