Calling all literary fiction lovers of the greater Austin Area for our **156th event**!

We are reading the story **"Mother of Men"** by **Lauren Groff.** Link is provided in the comments section below and will be visible once you sign up for the event.

[Our Discord Server:](https://discord.gg/9jjufDeZ5Q) join our community to chat and hang in between meetups!

[KUT's Sean Saldana, a member of our meetup, recently did a story about us: read here!](https://www.kut.org/life-arts/2025-10-02/new-yorker-reading-club-austin-tx-central-market)

Interested in being a part of meaningful conversations on life, love, and contemporary short fiction? Are you a bookish type that loves to keep up with The New Yorker's short story of the week? Miss reading and having friends who read, but don't have the time to linger over a 300-page novel?

Welcome: We have been searching for y'all and would be pleased to co-create a fun lil literary community together! Come join our group weekly for a lively, thoughtful in-person discussion of the latest and greatest work of short fiction from The New Yorker.

Whether you're a longtime lover of literature or just curious to see what all the fuss is about when it comes to Murakami and pals, we’d love to have you either way; reading, like most everything else in life, is just more fun with friends!

**Please note that this is an inclusive community space, welcoming of LGBTQIA+, queer, transgender, and nonbinary people.** Event attendees will be asked to share their preferred pronouns and to respect the preferred pronouns shared by other discussion participants.

**People of color seeking a diverse community and reading selection are also especially encouraged to attend.** Not that they're perfect (or that we are, for that matter), but part of the reason why we read The New Yorker's short stories is that the editorial staff has done a good job in recent years of publishing writers of color and promoting, more generally, a wide-ranging selection of American & international literary voices. Our reading group is also fairly diverse in terms of ethnic and cultural background.

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