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Casual Short Story Book Club

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Organized by Ben M and 1 other

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What we’re about

Welcome all! This is a reading club that requires a little less commitment than traditional ones (plus, short stories are great). We'll be choosing a short story collection each month and meeting to discuss it in an informal setting over beverages.

Feel free to read the entire collection or just a few stories, whatever you have time for! We can talk about individual pieces or simply the general vibe of the collection. Let's bring together readers and make some new friends :)

Upcoming events (1)

Wed, May 8, 2024, 6:30 PM PDTMay Meeting: Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales Oakland Arbor, Oakland, CA
Recommended stories:

Car Crash While Hitchhiking

Emergency

Steady Hands at Seattle General

This has been recommended a few times and come in second on multiple polls, so we're subbing it in for May's collection. It's considered a "modern classic" but probably not going to be a cheery read. Looking forward to discussing it!

For First-Timers: We recommend reading at least one story in the collection, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and covers the whole collection, but we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above.

About the collection:
Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again.
21 attendees+16

Past events (36)

Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 6:30 PM PDTApril Meeting: Allegra Hyde - The Last Catastrophe
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23 attendees+18

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