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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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The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Club (Tuesday Edition)
Central Market, 4001 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, USCalling all literary fiction lovers of the greater Austin Area for our 181st event!
We are reading the story "My Balenciaga" by Han Ong. 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!
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The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Club (Wednesday Edition)
Central Market, 4001 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, USCalling all literary fiction lovers of the greater Austin Area for our 182nd event!
We are reading the story "My Balenciaga" by Han Ong. 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!
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Book-Club & Dinner Event: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Arpeggio Grill, 6619 Airport Blvd, Austin, TX, USWe are reading "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov.
Available at First Light Books 4300 Speedway, AustinNabokov on writing Pale Fire:
"As to Pale Fire, although I had devised some odds and ends of Zemblan lore in the late fifties in Ithaca, New York, I felt the first real pang of the novel, a rather complete vision of its structure in miniature, and jotted it down—I have it in one of my pocket diaries—while sailing from New York to France in 1959. The American poem discussed in the book by His Majesty, Charles of Zembla, was the hardest stuff I ever had to compose. Most of it I wrote in Nice, in winter, walking along the Promenade des Anglais or rambling in the neighboring hills. A good deal of Kinbote’s commentary was written here in the Montreux Palace garden, one of the most enchanting and inspiring gardens I know.* I’m especially fond of its weeping cedar, the arboreal counterpart of a very shaggy dog with hair hanging over its eyes."
Book synopsis from the Penguin Random House:
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure.
An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature–perfect tragicomic balance.
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.25 deelnemers
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