Josh Millstein, who runs quite a few of the book groups at the Community Bookstore, sent an email about the store’s “A la Modern” book group:

The suspense is building and building…. People are waiting in line, dying to find out…. Strangers are stopping me on the street, cornering me in the subway car, and they have only one question on their minds….

What will the à la Modern book club be reading next? The answer: Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. We’re planning to discuss it on August 29th at 7:30. Perfect beach material, no?

We had another really lovely meeting last Wednesday. Some new faces were there, too, which is always nice to see.

I’ve also been thinking about adding a certain structure to the group, in the sense of creating a broad “curriculum” that we can use as a reference guide. Of course I’d only be thinking about doing this if the group wanted it. But I’m curious about what facets of literary modernism you may be interested in exploring; whether your interests are geographical (i.e. do you want to study European modernist literature, or perhaps just the novels from a particular country), chronological (a certain time-period) , or thematic. If you are interested in thinking about developing a curriculum, please email me your responses to the questions above or anything else you are thinking about. My email is: joshua.milstein@ gmail.com. You could also just save your responses for our next meeting.