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• A Mythical Man-Month focused book club. We will visit the original Bell Laboratories Building to see a historical technological marvel in New York City.

  • Visit to Bell Labs Building: Friday, Sep 4 · 2:00 PM–3:00 PM EDT
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• An Open themed book club visiting the US Open Player Tunnel and Champions' Photo Experience at Hudson Yards — walk through a recreation of the iconic entrance players make before stepping onto Arthur Ashe Stadium, and strike a pose like a US Open champion!

  • US Open Player Tunnel and Champions' Photo Experience at Hudson Yards: Saturday, Sep 5 · 12:00 PM–1:00 PM EDT
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• A River of the Gods themed book club disguised as a pulp adventure expedition through Central Park — because what better way to discuss 19th-century European scrambles for the Nile's headwaters than by scrambling through the park yourself, fedora in hand, dodging betrayal and cryptic clues in search of a lost artifact? Colonialism meets cosplay meets literary analysis.

  • Raiders of the Local Adventure: Saturday, Sep 5 · 2:00 PM–3:30 PM EDT
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• A Reading Together focused book club. We will attend a Quiet Reading event at the DeKalb Library in Brooklyn for a communal reading session.

  • Quiet Reading at DeKalb Library: Tuesday, Sep 8 · 6:00 PM–7:30 PM EDT
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• An I Robot focused book club. Asimov attended Columbia University for graduate studies. We will walk through the Columbia campus and discuss the book and its impact on science fiction.

  • Walking at Columbia University to Discuss I, Robot: Thursday, Sep 10 · 6:15 PM–8:00 PM EDT
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• Are Prisons Obsolete? focused book club. We will attend Attica is All of Us at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture — a commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising and Massacre.

  • Attica is All of Us at Schomburg Center: Saturday, Sep 12 · 5:30 PM–8:30 PM EDT
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• A If on a winter's night a traveler focused book club. We will meet at the Drama Book Shop.

  • Book Club Discussion at the Drama Book Shop: Thursday, Sep 17 · 4:00 PM–6:00 PM EDT
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• A The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family focused book club. We will visit the Jewish Museum — housed in the historic Felix M. Warburg House on the Upper East Side — to explore the Warburg family legacy and Jewish culture in New York City.

  • Visit to the Jewish Museum: Friday, Sep 18 · 1:00 PM–3:00 PM EDT
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• An official Commonplace.NYC meeting at McCarren Park — come to New York's only book club that creates new book clubs!

  • Official Commonplace.NYC Meeting: Friday, Sep 25 · 6:00 PM–7:00 PM EDT
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• A Orality and Literacy focused book club. We will take a look at modern verbal storytelling as it exists in spoken word poetry.

  • Nyuorican Bowery Slam: Monday, Sep 28 · 6:00 PM–9:00 PM EDT
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• A Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World focused book club. We will meet at Brooklyn Museum's Art of Manga Exhibit and will also watch (some of) the first season of One Piece together (meeting biweekly on Zoom).

  • One Piece Watch Party on Zoom: Every other Monday, Oct 5–Nov 20 · 7:00 PM–9:00 PM EDT
  • Brooklyn Museum: Art of Manga Exhibit: Thursday, Nov 5 · 12:00 PM–3:00 PM EST
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