Madison Classic Literature Meetup

Please join us on Monday, November 16, 2026 for a discussion of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel "Rebecca."

We will be meeting in the 8th floor Boardroom at the Park Hotel, with a gorgeous view overlooking the State Capitol grounds.

There is no cost to attend the meetup, except for the food and drinks you order from The Post bar and restaurant in the hotel. Please keep in mind that The Post is a business, and that the wait staff depends on your tips for their income.

There are two different meetups this month for the same book. The format and discussion will be the same for both meetups. Please RSVP for one or the other.

Back by popular demand for a ninth year!

In the mid-1800s, Charles Dickens toured the United Kingdom and the United States doing hugely popular public readings of his story "A Christmas Carol." We will be recreating Dickens' performance, using the same text he used, which Dickens condensed from his original story. The reading takes a little more than one hour.

You are encouraged to dress to impress for this festive occasion. That may mean 19th century Victorian England fancy dress, 21st century cocktail attire, or even in costume as Marley's Ghost.

We will be meeting at Bad Art Co. in Oregon, WI. It's behind the Subway sandwiches shop on Main Street in Oregon. It's a 20 minute drive from the Capitol Square in Madison.

Please consider bringing a dish to pass. If you plan to bring a crock pot or something that needs to be chilled, the venue does have a small kitchen for our use, with a sink, refrigerator, and a kitchen counter with electric outlets.

The venue has a cash bar, so please do NOT bring any bottles of wine or other alcohol.

We will be rotating volunteer readers. If you're an aspiring actor and want to get a section of text in advance to practice your very dramatic reading, please send Tim Kiefer an email at timothy_kiefer@post.harvard.edu, or call 608 358-7213. Or you can just show up and we'll give you a section of text that same evening.

Please note that unlike our normal book group format, there will be no expectation that you will have read the book beforehand. So it's the easiest book group of the entire year!

Please join us on Monday, January 4, 2027 for a discussion of Albert Camus's 1947 novel "The Plague." Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

We will be meeting in the 8th floor Boardroom at the Park Hotel, with a gorgeous view overlooking the State Capitol grounds.

There is no cost to attend the meetup, except for the food and drinks you order from The Post bar and restaurant in the hotel. Please keep in mind that The Post is a business, and that the wait staff depends on your tips for their income.

There are two different meetups this month for the same book. The format and discussion will be the same for both meetups. Please RSVP for one or the other.