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BIG BOOK CLUB, PART 1
Thursday January 21 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM
THIS WINTER: 2666
A two-part book club discussion of Roberto Bolano’s novel, 2666.
Out of consideration for the health and safety of our attendees, this book club will be hosted remotely on Zoom. Registration is required. Please see the link at the bottom of this page to sign up.
The Big Book Club tackles some of the thickest and most enduring novels in world literature. Broken into two sessions over four months, the club invites readers to experience these books at a leisurely pace, and to enjoy the companionship of fellow readers making the same journey at the same time.
In 2066, three academics are on the trail of a reclusive German author. A New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman—these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.
In the words of The Washington Post, “With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era…”
This is the first of two book-club sessions. This book club will be hosted remotely on Zoom. Attendees are encouraged to read 2666 through Chapter 3 (pg. 349) by this first meeting.
A book-discussion club featuring fiction set in the American Southwest.
Out of consideration for the health and safety of our attendees, this book club will be hosted remotely on Zoom. Registration is required. Please see the link at the bottom of this page to sign up.
The inaugural meeting of the South/West Book Club will feature Hernan Diaz’s 2018 Pulitzer-Prize nominated novel, In the Distance.
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. Hernan Diaz is the author of Borges, Between History and Eternity (Bloomsbury 2012), managing editor of RHM, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. He lives in New York.
This book club will be hosted remotely on Zoom. Attendees are expected to have read the book in advance.
