For the past three months, Writers Revealed has introduced you to today’s most buzzworthy writers. You heard Leslie Bennetts discuss choice feminism in The Feminist Mistake, you listed in on a roundtable of accomplished novelists discuss mothers in contemporary fiction, you met Joshua Ferris, author of the poignant novel, Then We Came to the End, you shared your online dating story pitfalls and successes, and you learned of a Chicago riddled with reformers, harlots and politicians. And while we will continue to chat with the finest authors of contemporary fiction and non fiction, we realized there is always room to celebrate the classics and world literature published before 1945.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Writers Revealed Classics - a monthly live chat where we’ll discuss our picks for great classic & world literature. And we invite you to join in on all the fun! Each month we’ll announce our classic selection. Leading up to the day-long chat on the Writers Revealed website, your host will offer her view of the book, including what she loved and didn’t love about the work and themes worthy of discussion. There is no obligation to join, there are no sign-ups, just pop in on the day of the chat to share your view of the book and connect with other readers.

Meet Our Hosts!
Jennifer Bassett, Writers Revealed Classics Host
Jennifer Bassett works in book publishing, is a Senior Editor for Swink magazine, Contributing Editor for KGB Bar Lit, and really likes playing her Farfisa VIP 345 Organ.

Bethanne Patrick, Writers Revealed Classics Host
Bethanne Patrick is a journalist and literary critic whose favorite novel is Middlemarch. She has a master’s degree in English from The University of Virginia and has written for publications and sites including PAGES magazine, The Washington Post Book World, Bookreporter.com, and The Writer Magazine. She has interviewed scores of best-selling authors, including Sue Grafton, Alice Walker, Alexander McCall Smith, Luanne Rice, Brad Meltzer, and more. She is a Contributing Editor at Publishers Weekly, where she blogs as The Book Maven.

The world has not changed so much that the best literature of several thousand years and countless cultures has lost its relevance. If these texts help us in any way to appreciate and understand the essential differences that divide us, as much as the universal truths that bind us together, then their value is incalculable, and their loss or destruction would diminish us all. Today just as much as in 1946, in a world still of fantastically distorted values, there are many states and nations embarking on an uneasy and difficult peace, or yet at war. The Odyssey continues.
-Penguin Classics

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