Book Around the Corner

• For A Little While by Rick Bass
• The Corner of Rife and Pacific by Thomas Savage

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Upcoming billets:

• Les nuits de laitue de Vanessa Barbara
• West of Rome by John Fante
• The Catherine Wheel by Elizabeth Harrower (abandoned)
• Kabukicho by Dominique Sylvain
• L’abandonnée; Jacques Passinkov; Andreï Kolosov by Ivan Turgenev

October: Kabukicho by Dominique Sylvain

November: Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement d’Aissa Djebar

Join us if you want to.

Other readalongs:

October: The Corner of Rife and Pacific by Thomas Savage

November: The Hour of Lead by Bruce Holbert

The 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac

1) The right to not read,

2) The right to skip pages

3) The right to not finish a book,

4) The right to reread,

5) The right to read anything,

6) The right to “Bovary-ism,” a textually-transmitted disease

7) The right to read anywhere,

8) The right to sample and steal,

9) The right to read out-loud,

10) The right to be silent.

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