Circe by Madeline Miller: First-Line Book Club

Introduce yourself to Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) with a book-club discussion of its first line.

Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Miller’s Song of Achilles, Illiad, Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, Rick Riordan, David Vann’s Bright Air Black, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Margaret Atwood’s “Circe/Mud Poems” in You Are Happy (poetry), Margaret Atwood’s poem “Spelling” (poetry), Anne Carson, “Autobiography of Red” (poetry), Gregory Maguire's Wicked, Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield, James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (literary history), Nicholas Paige’s Before Fiction (literary history)

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