Big Book Book Club: "Schattenfroh" by Michael Lentz
Big Book Book Club: it sounds just like what it is! Huge novels like Ulysses or Middlemarch might seem intimidating, but those bad boys are more afraid of you than you are of them! In manageable portions, we'll read some big ol' brick-sized books — some new, some old, and meet up once a month to talk about 'em. Each
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meeting will be led by Joe at our Bushwick store. For our first meeting, we'll be reading Schattenfroh, written by Michael Lentz and translated from the German by Max Lawton. Narrated by a man sitting in complete darkness, strapped to a machine made by the mysterious Frightbearing Society — a machine that turns our narrator's real-time thoughts into the very text of Schattenfroh as he thinks them — Lentz's English-language debut interrogates our ideas of how written history, and therefore the world, is made. "A genius, insane, dark or ridiculous book before which one can only helplessly surrender." — Vulture One book, three sessions: Session 1: September 16, pages 1-350 Session 2: October 21, pages 351-724 Session 3: November 18, pages 725-1001 Buy a ticket to the first session, and we'll provide a promo code for you to register to the following sessions for free. 🎟️ [ REGISTER HERE ] What your ticket includes: - $8 off a drink at the bar [ABOUT THIS EVENT: This is a ticketed event. The rear seating in the store will be used exclusively for this event. The front bar will be open to the public for drinking & chatting. Book browsing remains open.]