Our Book Club

Our book club meets monthly and is open to anyone who'd like to join. There is no need to reserve a spot or even buy the book from us, simply show up prepared to discuss the book on the night of the meeting.

Current meeting schedule: BOTH BOOK CLUBS WILL BE MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23RD, AT 7PM!

FICTION BOOK CLUB

Wednesday, October 23rd, 7pm: SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE, by Fleur Jaeggy (translated by Tim Parks) [buy it here]

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the offhanded remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Frédérique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’s consummate translation with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem” (TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

NON-FICTION BOOK CLUB

Wednesday, October 23rd, 7pm: PLANES FLYING OVER A MONSTER, by Daniel Saldana Paris (translated by Christina McSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman) [buy it here]

From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in understanding ourselves

In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico City he’s a young poet eager to prove himself. In Montreal—an opioid addict desperate for relief. In Madrid—a lonely student seeking pleasure in grotesque extremes. These now diverging, now coalescing selves raise questions: Where can we find authenticity? How do we construct the stories that define us? What if our formative memories are closer to fiction than truth?