Upcoming Readings for Low-Stakes Book Club
- Brooke Lanier
- Oct 4, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 21
Have you been wanting to join a book club, but it's too much of a commitment? Welcome to Low-Stakes Book Club, where we only read short stories, essays, and poetry! Miss a
meeting? That's ok, we'll see you next time. Don't like the reading? Don't worry, it's not that many pages, and next meeting we're discussing something different. I'm making an effort to select readings that are available online unless otherwise elected by the group. If we decide to purchase a book, I will make an order via Brickbat Books so that we can support a local small business.
Fill out this google form to answer a few quick questions about your schedule preferences and reading interests, and join the mailing list via the form at the bottom of this page to receive updates about future meetings.
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
Friday, April 4th at 5 pm
Friday, April 18th at 5 pm
No book club on May 2nd
Friday, May 16th at 5 pm
FUTURE READINGS:
We will be alternating reading essays, short stories, and poetry. Feel free to comment below with suggestions!
Friday, May 16th at 5 pm
"Avant Garde and Kitsch" by Clement Greenberg, 1939
This essay was written at interesting time when Western artist were pursing art for art's sake and non-objective abstraction. Simultaneously, the industrial revolution had made mass-produced pop-culture-type art accessible for the working class. Clement Greenberg wrote about aesthetics in relation to taste and class. He is best known for his association with the Abstract Expressionists.
In other meetings we talked about the Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX and the color field painters' interest in the sublime.
PREVIOUS READINGS and MEMBER SUGGESTIONS: To see what we've read before and check out what other members suggest, visit this page.
Have you read They Were Horrible Cooks?