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Atlanta Experimental Book Club

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Atlanta, GA, US

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Welcome to the Experimental Book Club! If you're a lover of mind-bending, innovative literature and enjoy diving into unconventional narratives, this is the group for you. Let's meet and discuss ground-breaking works of experimental fiction which pushed the boundaries of style, structure, and genre. Together we will delve into the realms of metafiction, surrealism, magical realism, and more. Join us for captivating discussions, stimulating debates, and the chance to expand your reading horizons.

Featured event

Discuss Piranesi @ Round Trip Brewing

Discuss Piranesi @ Round Trip Brewing

Tue, Mar 10 · 7:30 PM EDT

Round Trip Brewing Company, 1279 Seaboard Industrial Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA, US

In March we'll be discussing the sensational return of weird fantasy visionary Susanna Clarke, Piranesi!

Book description:
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Upcoming events

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Discuss Piranesi @ Round Trip Brewing
Tue, Mar 10 · 7:30 PM EDT
Round Trip Brewing Company, 1279 Seaboard Industrial Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA, US
In March we'll be discussing the sensational return of weird fantasy visionary Susanna Clarke, Piranesi!

Book description:
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
7 attendees
Discuss 253 @ Wild Heaven Beer
Tue, Apr 14 · 7:30 PM EDT
Wild Heaven Beer, 135 Maple Street, Decatur, GA, US
In April we will be discussing Geoff Ryman's fascinating "interactive" novel, 253!

This book was originally published online and is still available in its original format at 253novel.com. It has also been published in physical formats.

Book description:
A London tube train, with all seats occupied, carries 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each one has a secret history, thoughts about themselves and the world. And each one's story takes one page (comprised of exactly 253 words) in this novel.

Meet Estelle, who has fallen madly in love with Saddam Hussein; James, who anesthetizes sick gorillas for a living; and Who? a character who doesn't know where, or what, on earth he is.
Perhaps you'll see a bit of yourself in some or all of them.
This seven-and-a-half minute ride between Embankment and Elephant & Castle is highly original. And enjoyable. And unpredictable.
And full of marvels.
7 attendees

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Natalie DiGiacomo and 1 other

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