Godmothers Gather: The Enduring Classics Book Club

Introducing The Enduring Classics Book Club, devoted to the enduring classics that shaped the literary world—and continue to shape us.

Led by Riley Reed, Godmothers’ head of live & digital storytelling, The Enduring Classics Book Club is a space to return to the novels that have shaped the literary landscape, and to read them slowly, thoughtfully, and in good company.

This series brings together four works that explore longing, identity, devotion, and the quiet architecture of a life. Books that reveal themselves quietly, sentence by sentence. Books that ask for your attention, and reward it.

Over the coming months, we’ll read:

• TUESDAY, MAY 26 “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier
• TUESDAY, JUNE 30 “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin (with a short selection from Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”)
• TUESDAY, JULY 28 “Madonna in a Fur Coat ” by Sabahattin Ali
• TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 “Stoner” by John Williams

We’ll gather each month for focused, text-centered conversation attentive to language, structure, and meaning. Less about takeaway, more about noticing. Less about answers, more about staying with the questions.

All meetings will run from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Please only sign up for this series if you can attend at least three of the four meetings.

This event will be hosted in our third-floor workshop space, which is only accessible by stairs.

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