Read a Classic Novel…Together!

Join us, writers Ash Clifton and Margaret Luongo, as we tackle a different classic novel every few months. We pick English-language books that neither of us has read, and we read them in small digestible chunks so that you can take the journey with us. We also try to pick books that are either free (in the public domain) or really old (and thus cheap).

Our first target will be The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. 

Ash Clifton is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. His debut novel, Twice the Trouble, was published by Crooked Lane Books in March of 2024. Read more about Ash on his website.

Margaret Luongo is the author of two critically praised short-story collections, and her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Granta, Fiction Southeast, and other journals. She is also a Professor of Creative Writing at Miami University in Ohio. Read more about Margaret on her website.