The GW Publishing Book Club, organized by the MPS in Publishing program at the George Washington University, is a space for publishing students, alumni, faculty, and members of the publishing, library, and scholarly communication 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 8 Update: April 2024:
We are reading book 8 -
TheOther Black Girl by
Zakiya
Dalila Harris - for discussion in June or August 2024.
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.
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: Laila Keadan (lead), Hind Berji, Carly Fisher, Beth Icard, Jessica Irving, Rachel Kahn, Kathryn Kremp