The chianti begins flowing promptly at 7:30 p.m., accompanied by a spread of submarine sandwiches and chocolate-chip cookies.
So, too, does a lively dissection of David Grann’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. The nonfiction narrative details the New Yorker scribe’s quest to trace the path of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who in 1925 disappeared while surveying the Brazilian jungle.
A 90-minute conversation, peppered with laughs and jabs at the self-admitted urbanite author (“too much of a professional” and “utterly contrived”), stretches well past sunset in the Dublin backyard of Rich King, chief operating officer of a Downtown law firm.
Just as prevalent as the banter — and a few drink refills — are plenty of deep thoughts: Why do we explore? What makes us obsess? Does a real pioneer use a GPS?
The group — which includes professors, doctors, lawyers and businessmen — is hardly a casual klatch (although some participants arrive sporting dress shirts with cuff links, others opt for T-shirts and flip-flops). They’ve read 121 more titles, each graded collectively on an academic scale — from the excellent (Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible earned an “A”) to the so-so (Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, a “B”). It’s an all-male book club — the only one in Columbus, OH, members think — into its 11th year.
Since when is an all-male
Since when is an all-male anything news, precisely?
generally
people assume most book clubs are comprised of women…I don’t have the statistics, but I think they mostly are…
All male is news at this point
At this point anything that is single gendered and especially male gendered IS news….of course now that this has been written you can be sure that someone will sue to allow women in.
This sounds like something I would be interested in.
I’m an electrical engineer who just moved to Dublin from the Cleveland area. What is the age group do most members fall into? Any of these guys members of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce? Just curious.