Tuesday, April 14th, 2009, 6:30pm
Neighborhood Preservation Center
232 East 11th Street btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave.
Free Admission

Please RSVP to info@neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org or 212-228-2781.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

For its 2009 Big Read, The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction will sponsor a series of events focused on Henry James' classic novel Washington Square. The story focuses on heiress Catherine Sloper, whose domineering father thwarts her attempts at love and happiness with cad-about-town, Morris Townsend.

On April 14th, Jim Kraft, the Mercantile Library's own Jamesian, will lead a reading group. The discussion will be geared to those who have read the novel, though people who have not read the book may attend.

This event is sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Neighborhood Preservation Center. For information on other The Big Read events please check the Mercantile Library's website, www.mercantilelibrary.org/events/series.php.