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An Orality and Literacy focused book club featuring a walking tour meets street theater exploring New York language and slang in the Lower East Side, with special guest performers from PMT House of Dance.
- The City Speaks: Languages and Slang of NYC (with Special Guest Performers): Sunday, Aug 30 · 3:00 PM–5:00 PM EDT
An Anti-Oedipus focused book club. We will attend a screening of Dead Man at Anthology Film Archives — a surreal Western in a space dedicated to surrealist cinema.
- Dead Man Screening at Anthology Film Archives: Sunday, Aug 30 · 8:30 PM–10:30 PM EDT
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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A No-Nonsense Spirituality focused book club. We will go to The New York Society for Ethical Culture to join in one of their Humanist Happy Hours.
- Humanist Happy Hour at The New York Society for Ethical Culture: Friday, Aug 28 · 7:00 PM–9:00 PM EDT