NYC Brown Book Club
Frequently Asked Questions:
- WHAT IS THE BROWN BOOK CLUB?
- HOW DO I JOIN?
- WHO HAS JOINED?
- WHAT ARE DISCUSSIONS LIKE?
- HOW ARE READINGS SELECTED?
- WILL YOU READ MY BOOK?
- WHERE DOES THE BOOK CLUB MEET?
- WHAT IS THE COST OF JOINING THE BOOK CLUB?
- HOW DO I FIND OUT ABOUT THE CLUB?
- WHAT IS THE CLUB READING NOW?
- WHAT HAS THE BOOK CLUB READ?
WHAT IS THE BROWN BOOK CLUB?
The Brown Book Club began in June, 1998 and is open to all members of the Brown Alumni community in New York City. The group’s members meet at bars, restaurants or readers’ apartments in New York City to dine and discuss books chosen by the group. We usually meet on the third Tuesday or the third Wednesday of the month. We accept new readers and reading suggestions year round!
Our Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/NYCBrownBookClub
HOW DO I JOIN?
Click here or send an email to “NYCBrownBookClub-subscribe@yahoogroups.com”
to be put on our mailing list. You will then receive announcements about meeting locations and upcoming books to read. Then, just RSVP and come join the discussion!
Once you’ve joined, please send the following information via email to “NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com” :
- Name
- Email
- Degree from Brown (AB/BSc/MA/PhD/MD)
- Year Graduated
WHO HAS JOINED?
The over 200 readers on our mailing list come from all different Brown eras (1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s,2000s) are undergraduate and graduate alums, and work in a variety of fields (finance, publishing, law, non-profit, education, marketing, writing, theater), bringing many interesting viewpoints to bear on the discussion.
WHAT ARE DISCUSSIONS LIKE?
Discussions are informative and entertaining in a relaxed setting. There are typically 4-12 people at the meetings. Each month a club member who is particularly knowledgeable about and/or interested in the work being read volunteers to be moderator. This moderator does a little background research on the author and the work and prepares a few questions to guide the group. If you would like to be a moderator for an upcoming discussion, send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com”.
HOW ARE READINGS SELECTED?
Previously, the club would select books twice a year for the next 4 to 6 months. Currently, we are experimenting other kinds of selection processes, but nominations from members are always gratefully accepted.
We try to achieve a reading list covering a variety of genres and subject areas. Previous readings have included modern fiction, classics, plays, biographies, and non-fiction works. Most readings are available in paperback, from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and/or at the New York Public Library.
Works are also occasionally chosen to coincide with Brown Club talks by the author (Ron Suskind’s Hope in the Unseen in October, 1998), presentations of the author’s work (Paula Vogel’s The Mammary Plays in March, 1999) or discussions led by the author (David Beckman’s Under Pegasus in May, 1999 and Ben Schrank’s Miracle Man in September, 1999). The Book Club welcomes reading suggestions, and submissions from authors who would be willing to discuss their work with the group.
If you have a suggestion for a book, send an email to the entire mailing list (“NYCBrownBookClub@yahoogroups.com“) or to the club coordinator (“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com“).
WILL YOU READ MY BOOK?
We welcome submissions by published authors, especially ones willing to speak with the group. If you’ve had a work published recently and would like to recommend it to the group, send an email to “NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com”.
WHERE DOES THE CLUB MEET?
Discussions are often accompanied by dinner. Sometimes the group meets at a restaurant, and the location and/or dinner menu is often chosen to parallel the theme of the book being discussed.
Other meetings are held at the homes of club members or friends, and we order in food or have a pot luck meal.
If you have a restaurant suggestion or would considering hosting a book club meeting at your place, send an email to “NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com”. If you offer to host, your book nomination is always given special consideration.
WHAT IS THE COST OF JOINING THE BOOK CLUB?
There is no cost to join the Book Club. The Book Club is affiliated with the Brown Club of New York. To join you should be an alumni of Brown University, and we encourage you to also join the Brown Club. To find out more about membership in the Brown Club visit the
membership page.
HOW DO I FIND OUT ABOUT THE CLUB?
We use Yahoo! Groups for email newsletters and announcements. All correspondence regarding voting for new books, scheduling upcoming meetings, and recaps of each month’s discussion will be sent from a distribution email address, “NYCBrownBookClub@yahoogroups.com” directly to your personal email account.
Yahoo! Groups is a free, easy-to-use email group service with a website component. To visit the book club website, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCBrownBookClub
To visit the website, you will need a Yahoo! Username and Password. If you do not have one, simply create one when you go to the website. Going to the website (and getting a Username & Password) is totally optional: we always send emails for everything you need to know about the club. However, the website has some neat additional features like a database of the books we’ve read, convenient links to make online purchases of the books we’ll read at future meetings, and a calendar of our upcoming discussions.
If you are a member of the mailing list and want to unsubscribe, just send an email to:
“NYCBrownBookClub-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com”.
Feel free to send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com” if you have any doubts or concerns about the website or email service.
Send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-subscribe@yahoogroups.com”
to be put on our mailing list.
WHAT IS THE CLUB READING NOW?
We are currently on break for the summer, but may be having a makeup meeting to discuss John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in July.
The up-to-date calendar of upcoming books is occasionally actually up-to-date.
You can always send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com” and ask about the upcoming books.
WHAT HAS THE CLUB READ?
- A Man in Full by Wolfe, Tom
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by Pears, Iain
- Anna Kerenina by Tolstoy, Leo
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Heaney, Seamus
- Between God and Evolution by Miller, Kenneth R. (Brown Faculty and Alum)
- Birth of Venus by Dunant, Sarah
- City of Glass by Auster, Paul
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
- Consent by Schrank B’91, Ben
- Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith
- Daughter of Persia : A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem
- Dubliners by Joyce, James
- Empire Falls by Russo, Richard
- Epitaph for a Peach by Masumoto, David
- Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground
- Fury by Rushdie, Salman
- God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From A Militant Middle East by Miller, Judith
- God of Small Things by Roy, Arundhati
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
- Hope in the Unseen by Suskind, Ron
- John Adams by McCullough, David
- Lost Steps by Carpentier, Alejo
- Miracle Man: A Novel by Shrank, Ben (Brown Alum)
- Model Behavior by McInery, Jay
- Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem, Jonathan
- Nickel and Dimed by Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower by Khrushchev, Sergei N. (Brown Faculty)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Perespolis: The Story of a Childhood by Satrapi, Marjane
- Run Catch Kiss by Sohn, Amy (Brown Alum)
- Santa Evita by Martinez, Tomas Eloy
- Shame: A Novel by Rushdie, Salman
- Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
- Snow in August by Hamill, Pete
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Woods, Gordon (Brown Prof.)
- The Angel of History by Forche, Carolyn
- The Blind Assassin by Atwood, Margaret
- The Corrections by Franzen, Jonathan
- The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
- The Danish Girl by Ebershoff, David (Brown Alum)
- The Farming of Bones by Danticat, Edwidge (Brown Alum)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Rushdie, Salman
- The Hours by Cunningham, Michael
- The House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith
- The Intuitionist by Whitehead, Colson
- The Kite Runner, by Hosseini, Khaled
- The Mammary Plays by Vogel, Paula (Brown Faculty)
- The Mismeasure of Man by Gould, Stephen Jay
- The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver, Barbara
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Niffenegger, Audrey
- Through the Islamic Revolution by Farmaian, Sattareh Farman
- Tis : A Memoir by McCourt, Frank
- Titan: a Biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Chernow, Ron
- Uncle Vanya: A Play by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Under Pegasus by Beckman, David
- Waiting by Jin, Ha
- Winters Tale by Helprin, Mark
NYC Brown Book Club
Frequently Asked Questions:WHAT IS THE BROWN BOOK CLUB?
The Brown Book Club began in June, 1998 and is open to all members of the Brown Alumni community in New York City. The group’s members meet at bars, restaurants or readers’ apartments in New York City to dine and discuss books chosen by the group. We usually meet on the third Tuesday or the third Wednesday of the month. We accept new readers and reading suggestions year round!
Our Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/NYCBrownBookClub
HOW DO I JOIN?
Click here or send an email to “NYCBrownBookClub-subscribe@yahoogroups.com”
to be put on our mailing list. You will then receive announcements about meeting locations and upcoming books to read. Then, just RSVP and come join the discussion!
Once you’ve joined, please send the following information via email to “NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com” :
WHO HAS JOINED?
The over 200 readers on our mailing list come from all different Brown eras (1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s,2000s) are undergraduate and graduate alums, and work in a variety of fields (finance, publishing, law, non-profit, education, marketing, writing, theater), bringing many interesting viewpoints to bear on the discussion.
WHAT ARE DISCUSSIONS LIKE?
Discussions are informative and entertaining in a relaxed setting. There are typically 4-12 people at the meetings. Each month a club member who is particularly knowledgeable about and/or interested in the work being read volunteers to be moderator. This moderator does a little background research on the author and the work and prepares a few questions to guide the group. If you would like to be a moderator for an upcoming discussion, send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com”.
HOW ARE READINGS SELECTED?
Previously, the club would select books twice a year for the next 4 to 6 months. Currently, we are experimenting other kinds of selection processes, but nominations from members are always gratefully accepted.
We try to achieve a reading list covering a variety of genres and subject areas. Previous readings have included modern fiction, classics, plays, biographies, and non-fiction works. Most readings are available in paperback, from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and/or at the New York Public Library.
Works are also occasionally chosen to coincide with Brown Club talks by the author (Ron Suskind’s Hope in the Unseen in October, 1998), presentations of the author’s work (Paula Vogel’s The Mammary Plays in March, 1999) or discussions led by the author (David Beckman’s Under Pegasus in May, 1999 and Ben Schrank’s Miracle Man in September, 1999). The Book Club welcomes reading suggestions, and submissions from authors who would be willing to discuss their work with the group.
If you have a suggestion for a book, send an email to the entire mailing list (“NYCBrownBookClub@yahoogroups.com“) or to the club coordinator (“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com“).
WILL YOU READ MY BOOK?
We welcome submissions by published authors, especially ones willing to speak with the group. If you’ve had a work published recently and would like to recommend it to the group, send an email to “NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com”.
WHERE DOES THE CLUB MEET?
Discussions are often accompanied by dinner. Sometimes the group meets at a restaurant, and the location and/or dinner menu is often chosen to parallel the theme of the book being discussed.
Other meetings are held at the homes of club members or friends, and we order in food or have a pot luck meal.
If you have a restaurant suggestion or would considering hosting a book club meeting at your place, send an email to “NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com”. If you offer to host, your book nomination is always given special consideration.
WHAT IS THE COST OF JOINING THE BOOK CLUB?
There is no cost to join the Book Club. The Book Club is affiliated with the Brown Club of New York. To join you should be an alumni of Brown University, and we encourage you to also join the Brown Club. To find out more about membership in the Brown Club visit the
membership page.
HOW DO I FIND OUT ABOUT THE CLUB?
We use Yahoo! Groups for email newsletters and announcements. All correspondence regarding voting for new books, scheduling upcoming meetings, and recaps of each month’s discussion will be sent from a distribution email address, “NYCBrownBookClub@yahoogroups.com” directly to your personal email account.
Yahoo! Groups is a free, easy-to-use email group service with a website component. To visit the book club website, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCBrownBookClub
To visit the website, you will need a Yahoo! Username and Password. If you do not have one, simply create one when you go to the website. Going to the website (and getting a Username & Password) is totally optional: we always send emails for everything you need to know about the club. However, the website has some neat additional features like a database of the books we’ve read, convenient links to make online purchases of the books we’ll read at future meetings, and a calendar of our upcoming discussions.
If you are a member of the mailing list and want to unsubscribe, just send an email to:
“NYCBrownBookClub-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com”.
Feel free to send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com” if you have any doubts or concerns about the website or email service.
Send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-subscribe@yahoogroups.com”
to be put on our mailing list.
WHAT IS THE CLUB READING NOW?
We are currently on break for the summer, but may be having a makeup meeting to discuss John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in July.
The up-to-date calendar of upcoming books is occasionally actually up-to-date.
You can always send an email to
“NYCBrownBookClub-owner@yahoogroups.com” and ask about the upcoming books.
WHAT HAS THE CLUB READ?