If you’re new, you can catch up here. I am so happy you have made it this far with us. You are now free (were you ever hampered in any way) of concerns about spoilers or getting ahead of yourself. Please feel free to talk about any aspect of the novel, but I INSIST we cover the following: 1. Lorraine. A graduate-level seminar on Lorraine. A casting session…

If you’re new, you can catch up here and here. Okay, so I'm, you know, obviously filling in for Nicole today, and I have to tell you I finished the book like two weeks ago, and I don't really care about the concept of spoilers (I would have been an amazing Greek in the Golden Age, when men were born with the knowledge of the time and manner of their deaths), so if anyone…

If you're new, you can catch up here. A brief confession, to start: I had really, honestly planned on not getting more than one chunk of text ahead of our official reading, because I think it helps to discuss portions of a book FOR THEMSELVES, without knowledge of what sort of heavy lifting they may be doing for the narrative as a whole, but when I got to the end of Chapter 12, I…

Welcome, dear ones! I hope you are as excited as I am to begin our book club discussion of Roxane Gay's brilliant debut novel An Untamed State. As soon as I read the first few pages, I knew it would be a perfect fit for our readers. I mean, heads up, this is not a novel about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, which Roxane helpfully lays out for you in her opening paragraph:…