This Week's Book Clubs Sep 6 – Sep 12

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Here's what's happening with Commonplace.NYC book clubs this week.

Quiet Reading at DeKalb Library

NB: I have improv that day so I'll be missing this one, but you should go, Quiet Reading is a great time!

A Reading Together focused book club. We will attend a Quiet Reading event at the DeKalb Library in Brooklyn for a communal reading session.

Quiet Reading at DeKalb Library:

Tuesday, Sep 8 · 6:00 PM–7:30 PM EDT — 790 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221, United States

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Personal Demons: A Conversation with Grace Lavery

An Anti-Oedipus-themed book club on gender abolitionism, anchored by Grace Lavery's discussion of Personal Demons at BISR Central — exploring possession narratives, neoliberal personhood, and queer emancipation beyond the body-versus-consciousness binary.

Personal Demons: A Conversation with Grace Lavery:

Wednesday, Sep 9 · 7:00 PM–8:30 PM EDT — 68 Jay Street, #425, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Walking at Columbia University to Discuss I, Robot

An I Robot focused book club. Asimov attended Columbia University for graduate studies. We will walk through the Columbia campus and discuss the book and its impact on science fiction.

Walking at Columbia University to Discuss I, Robot:

Thursday, Sep 10 · 6:15 PM–8:00 PM EDT — Columbia University, 116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States

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Attica is All of Us at Schomburg Center

Are Prisons Obsolete? focused book club. We will attend Attica is All of Us at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture — a commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising and Massacre.

Attica is All of Us at Schomburg Center:

Saturday, Sep 12 · 5:30 PM–8:30 PM EDT — 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037, United States

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