Community and Engagement

JONATHAN FRANZEN is not known for brevity. The hardback version of his most well-known novel, The Corrections, runs to just shy of 600 pages. He writes quite literally “weighty” tomes,...

A charity book club, which helps fund emergency shelters for people displaced by conflict and disaster all over the world, is celebrating its five-year anniversary.  ShelterBox Book Club is one...

Katrina Stokes, the new director of the East Baton Rouge Library, picked Portobello's Grill on Old Hammond Highway for her Baton Rouge Classic lunch.For lunch, Portobello Grill started us off...

An all-female book club has been set up outside Lurgan to create a safe space for women to connect with others locally and build new relationships. ‘The Lit Chicks’ hatched...

2. Racial Justice Book Club YWCA's Racial Justice Book Club is hosted in partnership with the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Discussions are guided by YWCA's volunteer racial justice...

In recent years, celebrity book clubs have gained immense popularity, offering readers a unique opportunity to explore diverse literary landscapes while also building on their love of their fave famous...

Fable.co, the mobile platform for online book clubs, has added a personalized book discovery and discussion feed called Fable For You, bringing the platform closer to a social media service....

FIRST PLACE “The Garden of Evil”by Michalle Gould Michalle Gould’s first full-length collection of poetry, Resurrection Party, was a finalist for the Writers League of Texas Book Awards. Her work has appeared...

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the children's fantasy book The Dark Dreamweaver, by Nick Ruth, Imaginator Press is holding a creative writing contest for children and teenagers up to...

In our always-on era, it can be hard to find a moment of deliberate pause. So it’s no surprise to see that a refreshing new take on the book club...