About us
Hello and welcome to The New Yorker Short Story Readers Club in Austin! We read short-stories published in The New Yorker magazine. Each week we pick up a recent issue of the magazine to pick a short-story for our meetup discussion.
The New Yorker magazine also provides an audio version of the text usually rendered by the author in their weekly podcast - Writer's Voice. We post the link to the audio version for our participants.
We are a fairly diverse community of readers and our members come from various ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds. Our meetup group is an inclusive space and we wholeheartedly welcome LGBTQIA+ folks and Allies.
The New Yorker magazine's short fiction represents voices from all around the globe. By engaging with these texts, we seek to elevate our own thoughts and ideas on life's Big Questions and reflect on the meaning of being human.
We hope you get to join us in one of our meetup events soon!
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Cover photo by Le Travelling Fork: A Food and Travel Journal by K.
Cover illustrations by Diobelle Cerna and Tabitha Brown
Upcoming events
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The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Readers Club (Tuesday Edition)
Central Market, 4001 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, USWelcome to our 186th event!
We are reading the story "Enough For Now" by Cassandra Neyenesch. Link is provided in the comments section below and will be visible once you sign up for the event.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We will be starting our discussion at 7:45pm.
We also would like everyone to please RSVP if you plan to attend and update it if your plans change promptly. This is critical for our event planning purposes. We very much appreciate it.
Meetup structure:
7:00pm -- 7:45pm: Socializing and/or catch up on the reading for the meetup7:45pm -- 8:00pm: Introductions and presentation of summary of the text
8:00pm -- 8:50pm: Discussion on the short-story
8:50pm -- 9:00pm: Voting on the short-story and Goodbyes
Please note that we are an inclusive space that welcome folks from diverse backgrounds and we wholeheartedly welcome and support LGBTQIA+, nonbinary members and Allies. We are always striving to reach out and embrace diverse voices within our Austin community. We hope you get to join our event!
WaitList explanation: Meetup.com's engine schedules and adds folks in the waitlist automatically. Folks with higher-tier memberships are prioritized by the Meetup system. As organizers, we don't have a say in it and we don't change the order in which the people are waitlisted. We have added an additional night for our meetup which happens on Wednesday to help cater to more participants. Please feel free to sign up on the night that is most convenient for you. Both will have the same agenda for our reading and discussion.
KUT's Sean Saldana, a member of our meetup, recently did a story about us: read here!
19 attendees
The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Readers Club (Wednesday Edition)
Central Market, 4001 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, USWelcome to our 187th event!
We are reading the story "Enough For Now" by Cassandra Neyenesch. Link is provided in the comments section below and will be visible once you sign up for the event.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We will be starting our discussion at 7:45pm.
We also would like everyone to please RSVP if you plan to attend and update it if your plans change promptly. This is critical for our event planning purposes. We very much appreciate it.
Meetup structure:
7:00pm -- 7:45pm: Socializing and/or catch up on the reading for the meetup7:45pm -- 8:00pm: Introductions and presentation of summary of the text
8:00pm -- 8:50pm: Discussion on the short-story
8:50pm -- 9:00pm: Voting on the short-story and Goodbyes
Please note that we are an inclusive space that welcome folks from diverse backgrounds and we wholeheartedly welcome and support LGBTQIA+, nonbinary members and Allies. We are always striving to reach out and embrace diverse voices within our Austin community. We hope you get to join our event!
WaitList explanation: Meetup.com's engine schedules and adds folks in the waitlist automatically. Folks with higher-tier memberships are prioritized by the Meetup system. As organizers, we don't have a say in it and we don't change the order in which the people are waitlisted. We have added an additional night for our meetup which happens on Wednesday to help cater to more participants. Please feel free to sign up on the night that is most convenient for you. Both will have the same agenda for our reading and discussion.
KUT's Sean Saldana, a member of our meetup, recently did a story about us: read here!
5 attendees
Book-Club & Dinner Event: The Search Committee by José Skinner
Arpeggio Grill, 6619 Airport Blvd, Austin, TX, USWe are reading the award winning novel "The Search Committee" by José Skinner who is also a friend of our meetup!
Available at Alienated Majesty Books 613 W 29th St, Austin 78705
The author will be in attendance!'The Search Committee' Is a Subtle Rebuke of The Border Literary Canon -- Texas Observer
José Skinner is the author of two short story collections, Flight and Other Stories (University of Nevada Press) and The Tombstone Race (University of New Mexico Press). He worked as an English/Spanish court and conference interpreter in New Mexico before earning his MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and translations have appeared in Quarterly West, Colorado Review, Other Voices, Bilingual Review, Puerto del Sol, and other literary journals, and his nonfiction in anthologies such as Desde las Heridas: Transborder Testimonies and Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence. He co-founded and directed the bilingual MFA in creative writing the University of Texas-Pan American. He now lives in Austin.
Meetup Structure:
We will meet at Arpeggio Restaurant to discuss the book over dinner. We are expected to order food and drinks at the venue. After Introductions, we will have an open discussion on the book. Multiple copiess of the book are available at Austin Public Library.6 attendees
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