The GW Publishing Book Club, organized by the Graduate Program in Publishing at the George Washington University, is a space for publishing students, alumni, faculty, and members of the publishing, library, and scholarly community to read and discuss titles on the history of the book, the history of publishing, and similar topics. The book club involves no grades, no fees, and is designed for general knowledge, fun, networking, and community building. Meetings are held via Zoom.
Book 9 Update: February 2025:
• Reading
Love
in the Time of Self Publishing,
by Christine Larson (Princeton University Press). Princeton University Press offers members a 40% discount on the book.
We will discuss this book with Christine Larson on March 8, 2025.
Previous books:
- Book 1: Read and discussed Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge, by Richard Ovenden, who joined us for a discussion on February 4, 2022.
- Book 2: Read and discussed The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of our Time, by Keith Houston, who joined us for a discussion on May 20, 2022.
- Book 3: Read and discussed Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller, by Nadia Wassef, who joined us for a discussion on December 10, 2022; we were also joined by the audiobook's narrator Vaneh Assadourian
- Book 4: Read and discussed Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America, with
author Korey Garibaldi, and John Fisher, who worked on the book as a
freelance editor and is a GW publishing student. Hybrid meeting 4/6/23.
- Book 5: Read and discussed What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, by Leah Price; met with author Leah Price, on June 3, 2023.
- Book 6: Read and discussed Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Yellowface audiobook narrator Helen Laser joined us for a great discussion on November 4, 2023.
- Book 7: Read and discussed Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller, by Oliver Darkshire. The author joined us for our discussion on February 17, 2024.
- Book 8 - The Other Black Girl by
Zakiya
Dalila Harris - discussion Saturday, October 5, 2024.
See the list of books our members recommend and that we have read. We welcome your suggestions for future titles for the GW Publishing Book Club. We will endeavor, if feasible, to invite the author to join us for a meeting, but this is not guaranteed.
Publishing Book Club committee: Kim Brock (lead), Hind Berji, Beth Icard, Jessica Irving, Olatomiwa Sobande, Quinn Valdivia, Josette Williams
