The Book Club of Disquiet

A seemingly innocent fantasy, Last Unicorn is a tale that manages to say so much in 250 pages about love, loss, maturity, loneliness, hope, greed, disappointment, memory, and wonder. Written in 1968, it is the offbeat story of a lone unicorn on a journey to find her people. On the way she encounters malfunctioning magicians, bitter camp cooks, mad kings, harpies, talking cats, 'nice guys' with crushes, and Red Bulls, all while wondering "where my unicorns". She's literally me, fr. It's a book that can be read and reread with new layers of meaning, and I hope you'll join me for a discussion

Written in 2006 by hardcore musician Ian Svenonius, Psychic Soviet is a bewildering postmodern manifesto that manages to be at once wildly satirical and disturbingly prescient. Essays cover topics such as gentrification and television, capitalist malaise following the Soviet collapse, the Beatles and Maoism, Alan Greenspan's influence on Techno music, rock and roll as a religion, and other subjects that can barely be broached without ten levels of meta-irony. One of the most entertaining books I've read, and I hope you'll join me for discussion

Wuthering mfing Heights. I have opinions.

Tragic love story or toxic melodrama? What was Heathcliff's racial background? What's the setting's relationship to the Gothic? Does Mister Lockwood realize what a dork he sounds like? What was the deal with those Brontës and their taste in men?

This will be a fun one! Reading it not required, especially if you've read it before, but definitely encouraged. And I hope you'll join me.

I don’t consider my works to be particularly surreal or mystical; instead, I often depict the idea that strange things exist all around us in reality, but people often fail to notice them.

-Hiroko Oyamada

A young woman moves with her husband to be closer to her in-laws, quitting her job and giving up her old life. Bored and lonely, she sees a mysterious animal one day and fall down a randomly-appearing hole into a series of increasingly dreamlike events. Written in a sparse and matter-of-fact tone, The Hole explores themes such as gender roles and domesticity, the horrors and banalities of isolation, and cycles of familial trauma. It is at once simple and uninterpretable, drawing you in to its uneasy and strangely relatable world. Reminiscent of Murakami and Abe, with a bit of David Lynch thrown in

A great book you can finish in a sitting and will think about far long than that. Off the beaten track, so we can explore new literature together, and I hope you'll join me.