Book Club # 9 in 2025
Schedule
Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Lambertville House | Lambertville, NJ
Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" — brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch —yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.
We'll discuss this book on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 6:30 pm at Lambertville House 📚