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Queer Book Club - Kin by Tayari Jones
Tue, Sep 22, 11:00 PMHey Everyone! **Welcome to Queer Book Club! We read books about, for and written by queer people! Follow us on Instagram @queer_book_club Our next meetup will be held on Tuesday September 22nd at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope BK This month we will be reading Kin by Tayari Jones ** Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and marries into an affluent family. Annie, abandoned by her dissolute mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, and culminate in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction. **At the end of the discussion we can vote on which book we read for next month so bring a queer suggestion. Make sure to support our amazing host bar, by buying drinks! They are so great to support us so we must do our part in return! We are a lovely accepting group of queers and allies, and all are welcome! Our book list is officially too long for meetup and will now live on this google doc! [Queer Book Club - Booklist ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-fm0thuCZrdC6FvW81I6eqO8X_uXLMuT48sxtjN8_ck/edit) See you next month!

September Book Club: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Sun, Sep 20, 5:00 PMAfter a summer break, we’re back in September with a historical fiction pick that gives us plenty to talk about. 📖 This Month’s Theme - Historical Fiction 📘 Book Pick *The Personal Librarian* by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Inspired by the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan’s brilliant personal librarian, this novel follows her rise in New York’s rare-book and art world while she protects a secret that could change everything. Set in early-1900s New York, it explores ambition, race, identity, power, and the legacy we leave behind. 📅 Date & Time Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 1 PM 📍 Location Bronx Alehouse 216 W 238th St, Bronx, NY New members are always welcome! You’re welcome to join even if you have not finished the book, as long as you’re okay with spoilers. Come for the conversation, stay for the drinks and community.

"Empire of AI" by Karen Hao
Sat, Sep 26, 5:00 PMWhen AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined, the organization was meant to act as a check against more purely mercantile forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao wrestled with that question. Increasingly, she realized that this disruptive sector’s vision of success requires an unprecedented amount of resources: the “compute” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. We have entered a new age of empire where only a handful of globally scaled companies can enter the field of play. Armed with billions, pushing on trillions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace—toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained deep sourcing within the company and the industry, keeping in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry—Altman’s sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes of what happened is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn’t just the story of a single company. As Hao shows through intrepid global reporting, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. An astonishing eyewitness view from both the command capsule of the new economy and where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era. Support your local bookstore in Queens: [Astoria Bookshop](http://astoriabookshop.com/) (Astoria) [Topos Bookstore](https://www.toposbookstore.com/) (Ridgewood) [The World's Borough Bookstore](https://www.theworldsboroughbookshop.com/) (Jackson Heights) [Kew & Willow Books](https://www.kewandwillow.com/) (Kew Gardens) [Book Culture](https://www.bookculture.com/) (Long Island City)

All the Beauty in the World discussion
Wed, Sep 23, 11:00 PMWe will discuss *All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me* by Patrick Bringley on Wed., Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. at Tikka n Talk, 70-11 Austin Street, Forest Hills. It's between 70th Rd. and 70th Ave. (a block and a half west of 71st/Continental), on the lower level. Closest subway is E/F/R/M to 71st/Continental. You can see the menu at https://www.tikkantalkny.com/menu/.

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Tue, Sep 29, 11:00 PMA 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Nominee A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature. Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored. As their friends move back home or move on, so their own work and sex life—and the life of Berlin itself—begin to lose their luster. An attempt to put their politics into action fizzles in embarrassed self-doubt. Edging closer to forty, they try living as digital nomads only to discover that, wherever they go, "the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same." Perfection—Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English—is a scathing novel about contemporary existence, a tale of two people gradually waking up to find themselves in various traps, wondering how it all came to be. Was it a lack of foresight, or were they just born too late?

BROOKLYN Smutty Book Club - Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver
Wed, Sep 16, 11:00 PMThe book for September is recommended by Shana - **[Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy Book 1)](https://www.romance.io/books/680a03ee37fa524cfd66bbbd/tourist-season-brynne-weaver)** **[by Brynne Weaver](https://www.romance.io/books/680a03ee37fa524cfd66bbbd/tourist-season-brynne-weaver).** She says it's like Butcher and Blackbird, if the main female was also the caretaker and mentee to a retired Dexter in a Hallmark town. Quick housekeeping note: Scammers have been using the name of Smutty Book Club and its organizers to invite people to for-profit events. **If you receive any solicitation for an event or receive communication outside of Meetup asking for money, then it is a scam.** Please let us know if you see anything suspicious. Fun housekeeping note: Our annual trip to the **Renaissance Festival** will be on **Saturday, September 26th**. See Meetup for details. Remember we leave early - we want to be on the first bus.... breakfast beers are waiting. **Ok back to [Tourist Season](https://www.romance.io/books/680a03ee37fa524cfd66bbbd/tourist-season-brynne-weaver). Here's what the publisher says:** *. Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. With tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary—and her aging mentor with a fading memory—at any cost. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds.* *. But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he’s saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling. The problem? Harper isn’t the monster he expected. And she won’t go down without a fight.* *, When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she’ll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage—including their fragile love.* *. Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade—and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.* Please note: Paddy's of Park Slope serves plenty of drinks, but does not serve food. They welcome people to bring in food, or order in. And each month is chosen at the previous book club. So please come with your suggestions!
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