Online Book Club - March 26th
Book: The Best American Short Stories
Happy New Year friends.
For me, a new year brings the promise of new beginnings, new opportunities, new connections. With that in mind, I’m exited to announce a new book club, one that will focus solely on the short story.
The book club will take place online, and the first one will be held WEDNESDAY MARCH 26TH. 7PM TO 8PM.
To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/rco-uygh-jky
Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 226-315-5435 and enter this PIN: 184 691 427#
To view more phone numbers, click this link: https://tel.meet/rco-uygh-jky?hs=5
We will begin with The Best American Short Stories 2024 edited by Lauren Groff.
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session. Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.”
The Best American Short Stories 2024 includes JAMEL BRINKLEY • ALEXANDRA CHANG • LAURIE COLWIN • MOLLY DEKTAR • TAISIA KITAISKAIA • DANIEL MASON • JIM SHEPARD • AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI • PAUL YOON • and others
There are 20 stories in this collection. For the purpose of our discussion, I ask that book club attendees read at least three to five of these stories.
We will meet and discuss for one hour.
From this conversation, it is my hope to invite one of the authors in the collection to speak to us about their story, and the art form, at a future date.
The short story book club will take place 4 times a year, seasonally, and the author talks that derive from these discussions to take place throughout the year.
If you are interested in joining the book club, and for more information, please reply to this email, or send me a note at: info@curiosityhousebooks.com
For those interested in purchasing the book from our bookstore, Curiosity House Books, you will receive 15% off the purchase price. You can order a copy by sending an email to: info@curiosityhousebooks.com
Books bring people together.
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