Upcoming & Current
“The Odyssey” Book Club
Join us for a lively exploration of the world's greatest adventure story—a tale of shipwrecks, disguises, temptations, revenge, and the long journey home. Since we’ll be reading it over Halloween, we'll pay special attention to the cast of monsters, including cyclopes, sirens, cannibals, witches, and six-headed beasts.
Led by Neil Ferron, with Christopher Frizzelle
“I Capture the Castle” Book Club
Published in 1948, this romantic, funny, gloriously eccentric novel follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, who lives with her unconventional family in a ruined castle in the English countryside. She is one of the most engaging narrators in 20th-century fiction, and the story she tells is an addictive page-turner.
Led by Christopher Frizzelle
“The Sea, The Sea” Book Club
Few novels capture the mysteries of love, memory, obsession, and self-deception as brilliantly as Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea, winner of the Booker Prize. The story follows retired theater director Charles Arrowby as he withdraws to a lonely house by the sea, in search of peace—only to confront the illusions that have shaped his entire life.
Led by Christopher Frizzelle
“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, novelist
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
