A Closer Look Book Club meets around the Persian rug in the Dorothy Rubel Room at the Poetry Center, and it is free and open to the public. Copies of books are available at the Poetry Center’s gift shop. No sign up is necessary; you're welcome to drop in for just one, but you may find you look forward to attending every month!
We're currently reading books that explore the themes of revolution, apocalypse, regeneration, and rebirth. Our varied reading list includes works that are satiric and poetic, furious and amused, and violent and beautiful. As we read these important works of fiction, we’ll encounter opportunities to consider the many endings and beginnings currently taking place all over the world.
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Of this amazing collection of satiric stories set against an almost-familiar America, Men’s Journal wrote, “Dazzling…Saunder’s misfits confront their degradations with heroic optimism; rarely have the comic nuances of suffering been tracked with such precision. These stories, injected with Saunders’s highly original blend of irony and tenderness, ride you down spirals of the absurd and fling you back to your own life, startled.”