First off, we're in the damn New Yorker (!!) today, online at least, thanks to our pal Gary Shteyngart, who recently partied with some of our members in KC and wrote about it in his tour diary. It's a lovely little piece that discusses KC, the Liberty Memorial, and The Day After, and we're happy to be a small part of it. Read it in full here but check out our cameo below:
"The members of Kansas’s P.B.R. (Pabst Blue Ribbon) book club show up. These are serious readers who guzzle beer while discussing books. They take me out for some quasi-artisanal brews and some more baby-back ribs, dripping with sauce. We talk about books and jobs and the strangeness of life in twenty-first-century America. I feel very close to all of them and happy for the company. I wake up the next day with my arms spread out across the bed like a hovering bird."
Next up, November's selection (chosen by Steve, as you might guess) is the new Murakami novel with the not-so-catchy title Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. This will mark the first time the club has read two books by the same author, since we also tackled Murakami's massive IQ84. This looks much shorter.
