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Dec/14

WHAT THE DICKENS? FIFTH ANNUAL “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” MARATHON READING

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Dec/14

christmas carol marathon

Housing Works Bookstore Café
126 Crosby St. between Prince & East Houston Sts.
Saturday, December 20, free, 12 noon
212-966-0466
www.housingworks.org

In the preface to his 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote, “I have endeavoured in the Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.” For the fifth consecutive year, the story will pleasantly haunt the Housing Works Bookstore Café for the annual “What the Dickens?” marathon reading of the holiday classic, which has been turned into many a film and stage production. The festivities begin at 12 noon on December 20 with members of the New York City Master Chorale singing Christmas carols, followed at 1:00 by more than two dozen writers reading the Dickens classic until 4:30, with hot glögg available throughout. Among the participants are Adam Gopnik, Jami Attenberg, Ashley Ford, Lev Grossman, Aryn Kyle, Bennett Madison, Eileen Myles, Elissa Schappell, Peter Straub, J. Courtney Sullivan, and Adelle Waldman. Dickens purists will also want to make their way over to the Morgan Library, which is displaying the original manuscript of A Christmas Carol through January 11.