Book Club
January 14th, 2026
5:45 pm
Throwback Brewery
Our next book club meeting will be on Wednesday, January 14th, 5:45pm. To kick off the new year, we are going to do something a little different! We will be discussing six short stories rather than one book. There are a few ways to access some of these special stories, so here is more information on what they are and how to access them.
1. Culver’s “A Small, Good Thing”
2. Tobias Wolff’s “A Bullet to the Brain”
- (PDF) sevanoland.com It’s a powerful and compact piece originally published in The New Yorker and later included in his collection The Night in Question.
3. Shirley Jackson’s “The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith” (A YouTube reading of the story)
4. Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”
5. Lorrie Moore’s “People Like That Are the Only People Here”
- If you have a subscription to the New Yorker: People Like That Are the Only People Here | The New Yorker.
- Here is a PDF of the short story on Scribd: Lorrie Moore PDF
- And here is another PDF of the story (please also read the document titled “Page 1 of People Like That”): People Like That are the Only People Here by Lorrie Moore
- This story also appears in Lorrie Moore’s short story collection Birds of America, which is available on Audible and for Kindle.
6. Mariana Enriquez’ “Our Lady of the Quarry”
- If you have a subscription to the New Yorker, you can read Mariana Enriquez’ short story here: “Our Lady of the Quarry” | The New Yorker
- And here is a PDF of the story (please also read the document titled “Page 1 of Our Lady of the Quarry”), which you can find here: Our Lady of the Quarry by Mariana Enriquez
- This story appears in Mariana Enriquez’ short story collection, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which is available on Audible and for Kindle.
A few things to note, if you are interested in book club.
1- We usually cap these meetings at 16 people or so, please shoot us an email if you’d like to attend.
2- We also have a Throwback Brewery Book Club email distribution list. We email everyone on the list 2x a month – once to let everyone know what the next book and book club date is, and once again (a week before the meeting) to get a headcount of who plans on attending. If that sounds like something you are interested in, email us to add you to our distribution list!