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Explore the (cult) classics & literary culture
that enrich our lives & give us meaning.
CURRENTLY READING
Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos―an unforgettably compelling masterpiece―tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears.
We are a book club and slow reading community for literary creatives who seek smart, discerning content about literature and the arts. We disregard the trendy in order to pay reverence to the classics, the canonical, the overlooked, and new works that endure over time and touch lives as resources for creative practice, reflective selfhood, and personal style. By way of interviews and conversations, as well as community notes and curations, we cultivate our own taste to bring our coterie the books we know are excellent.
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