Upcoming & Current Clubs
“Moby Dick” Book Club
Led by Rebecca Brown and Christopher Frizzelle
Prepare for a sea-faring, heart-pounding, history-haunted adventure through the watery part of the world. We’ll meet on Mondays at 6 pm Pacific for four months starting in November.
Art by Kathryn Rathke
John Williams Book Club: “Stoner” & “Augustus”
In this club, we’re reading a novel about a man no one has heard of (an English professor whose last name is Stoner), and a novel about the most powerful man in the world (the Roman emperor Augustus). We’ll read them back to back, and meet on Saturdays to try to figure out what makes them so breathtaking and masterful. Led by Christopher Frizzelle
Augustus… in stone. Photo by the Frizzler
“Transformative. I adore these book clubs. Christopher’s passion and insight have left me near-delirious with an excitement and optimism I’ve carried into all my reading and writing.”
— Maria Semple
Book clubs in search of the meaning of life.
In the Moby Dick club we found aliveness and humor in a book that predicted the future.
In the Beloved club, we talked about motherhood and power.
In the To the Lighthouse club, we we watched Woolf bring the dead back to life.
In the Giovanni’s Room club, we considered James Baldwin’s second novel as a critique of oblivious and self-absorbed whiteness.
Past Book Clubs
