Posts Tagged “book club”
The Pale King finale / Nostalgia woes
by Morgan on July 5, 2011
On Saturday night, our reading group for The Pale King had their last meeting. It’s been intensely pleasurable to journey through this novel with other readers, and I was sad to bring it (the book and the club) to a (…)
“It made me moderately uncomfortable in a way that I’m comfortable with”
by Morgan on June 30, 2011
Sunday night, we held the book club meeting for Pym (which had been rescheduled due my being a big flu-y baby). Pym is an indisputably insane book, a ludicrously funny satire of academia and literary criticism. Briefly: Chris Jaynes, the only (…)
A (much better) Jeff Garlin book club meeting
by Morgan on June 11, 2011
Jeff Garlin’s book club met at Book Soup last night, to discuss Tim O’Brien’s Tomcat in Love. Full disclosure: Jeff and I got together yesterday to talk about hosting strategies, and review some potential discussion questions. So it’s with both (…)
The Pale King, round 1
by Morgan on April 19, 2011
First meet-up for The Pale King reading group was Sunday evening, and it was lovely. One of the reasons I wanted to do this group was to allow myself some slack in the way of my own self-imposed book discussion (…)
The Pale King reading group
by Morgan on April 3, 2011
I am alive, I’ve just been in Vegas. So listen, I have some fun things to post in the next couple days (an indictment of what I’m calling the “ELLE memoir,” and an interview with the LA Times book critic, (…)
Book club, forthcoming and hopefully super cool
by Morgan on January 30, 2011
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the book club I’d like to start. It’s easy to envision the type of gathering I hope to facilitate, but more difficult to pin down the finer points of what makes a (…)
Jeff Garlin’s book club, reflections
by Morgan on January 20, 2011
Facts: 1. Almost no one in attendance had read the novel, aside from myself, one other woman, and the employees of Book Soup. (There were about twenty people there.) 2. Some people didn’t even know what kind of meeting they (…)