Book Clubs, you’re invited
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Backlist book club
We’ve been meeting since 2022 and we don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Join us to explore the Deep Vellum backlist. Lively conversation, intellectual stimulation, regular celebration of the largest publisher of translated literature in the world being in the Big D.
Every last Thursday of the month at 7PM.
CURRENTLY READING: At the Lucky Hand By Goran Petrović, translated by Peter Agnone
NEXT MEETING: Thursday, July 30
Underdogs in Space
Underread sci-fi/fantasy/speculative classics by underrepresented authors. Bring a snack to share, bring some drinks, bring a craft, and be a dog.
Every first Monday of the month at 7PM.
CURRENTLY READING: Babel-17 by Samuel Delany
NEXT MEETING: Monday, August 4
DEEPER VELLUM
An offshoot of our longstanding Backlist Book Club, this is for the reader who gravitates to the longer books in our catalogue. If you’re undeterred by “plotless fiction” or “metafiction” or the concept of a “concept novel” then this is for you.
Once a season on a Wednesday at 7pm.
CURRENTLY READING: Revenge of the Translator by Brice Matthiessen, translated by Emma Ramadan
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, Aug 13
Homer Out Loud
We intend to read Emily Wilson’s translation of the Homeric epics out loud together, beginning with Iliad.
Every third Monday of the month at 7pm, maybe more often if we get impatient.
CURRENTLY READING: Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
NEXT MEETING: Monday, August 18