Book Clubs New York

From New York Story Night

Join us for weekly discussions of G. W. F. Hegel's 1807 dialectical quest through consciousness and subjectivity to reason and absolute knowledge, *The Phenomenology of Spirit*. **Required reading for this meeting: Introduction and A. Consciousness: I. Sensory Certainty and II. Perception** *(It is generally advised not to start with Hegel's preface, which we will likely read last.)* I'll be reading the 2018 [Inwood](https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS414/Georg%20Wilhelm%20Friedrich%20Hegel%20-%20The%20Phenomenology%20of%20Spirit.pdf) translation, but feel free to read any translation or even the original German if you can read German. We plan to meet weekly and work our way through the whole book 20–30 pages at a time. We'll be meeting at the 180 Maiden Lane Public Atrium on the ground floor of the building downtown.

16 attendees

New York Story Night #88

Mon, Oct 12, 11:00 PM

4.7

New York Story Night is a literary community event based in Manhattan founded to provide creative writers, amateur and professional alike, a stage on which to share their stories and an audience with which to road test their works. Consider an open mic for stand-up tragedy, stand-up horror, stand-up drama if you will. A night of bedtime stories for adults. **For those who wish to share a story, please arrive before 6:50pm and sign-up for a reading slot.** (Find Aïss at the front of the second floor event space.) For those who wish to be an audience, get a drink, find a favored spot, chit-chat with fellow story lovers if you like! At 7pm story night begins. **Each writer gets 20 minutes in front of the microphone. (15 minutes for the story + 5 minutes for workshop/Q&A with the audience)** We have a 10 minute intermission at the end of every hour. **Rules for stories:** * Stories must be under 15 mins (around 2,300 words) * All stories must be written pieces * Stories can be fiction or non-fiction but must contain a narrative arc * No poetry, no essays We encourage you to email us at newyorkstorynight@gmail.com if you have questions or concerns on if your story is a good fit for our event. If you cannot attend this particular event but would like to be in tune with our next ones join our MeetUp group or email us at newyorkstorynight@gmail.com to be added to our e-mailing list! New York Story Night is a free event. *\*By attending, you acknowledge that you may appear in photos and videos used for social media or promotional purposes.*in

60 attendees

🌴🎷 Cajun-Creole Lunch at 1803 NYC! 🥘🎶

Sun, Oct 11, 5:00 PM

From Socially Awkward but I'm Trying

From Silent Book Club NYC

# 🌴🎷 Cajun-Creole Lunch at 1803 NYC! 🥘🎶 Join us for a fun and relaxing Sunday afternoon at **1803 NYC**, a lively New Orleans-inspired Cajun-Creole restaurant in the heart of Tribeca! ⚜️🍽️ With its colorful French Quarter-inspired atmosphere, delicious Southern and Creole flavors, cocktails, and lively weekend vibe, **1803 NYC** is a great place to enjoy a meal, meet new people, and spend a Sunday afternoon together. Expect favorites such as gumbo, jambalaya, oysters, po'boys, brunch dishes, beignets, and plenty of other options to choose from. 🦐🥘🍳 📅 **Date:** Sunday, October 11, 2026 🕐 **Time:** 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM 📍 **1803 NYC** 82 Reade St New York, NY 10007 🗺️ **Google Maps:** [https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1803+NYC+82+Reade+St+New+York+NY+10007](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1803+NYC+82+Reade+St+New+York+NY+10007) 👥 **Only 8 spots are available**, so please RSVP only if you're seriously planning to attend. ⚠️ **Serious RSVPs only.** If your plans change, please update your RSVP as soon as possible so another member has a chance to join. Please try to update your RSVP at least **48 hours before the event** whenever possible. Repeated no-shows without notice may be removed from the group. 💵 **Please bring cash** to help make splitting the bill quick and easy for everyone. 📞 **The reservation is under Steven.** If you're running late or have any questions, please contact **Steven** at **646-238-9910**. Come hungry and ready for a fun afternoon of Cajun-Creole food, good conversation, laughter, and new friendships! 🌴🎷🥘✨ Looking forward to seeing everyone there! **Wepa!** 🎉💙☀️

5 attendees

Booze & Books in Brooklyn

Mon, Oct 12, 11:30 PM

4.7

In addition to draft beers, **LoFi Bar in Park Slope** features craft cocktails, curated wines, and small bites. Non-alcoholic options are also available. Bring your latest read (and maybe a book light!) and **enjoy $1 off all drinks**. **[LoFi Bar](https://www.lofibrooklyn.com/)** is conveniently located near the F/G/R lines. Please note, this is not a private event and LoFi will be open to the public. **There is seating available for 40 people, available on a first-come basis.**

29 attendees

Manhattan Smutty Book Club -

Wed, Nov 4, 12:00 AM

From Smutty Book Club

From New York Story Night

The book for each month will be chosen at the book club before. So come with your suggestions! Please join us at Cornerstone Tavern, 961 2nd Ave, New York, NY (51st and 2nd) for great conversation, laughs, and friendship. Look for our signs, and listen for the laughter. We are often in the back of Cornerstone behind the curtain, which is actually a different restaurant called the Stags Head. We start at 7pm, but feel free to come early before happy hour ends at 7. People usually start to drift in by 6:30pm.

3 attendees

New York Story Night #89

Mon, Oct 19, 11:00 PM

4.7

30 attendees

The Writing Group – Greenpoint Session

Thu, Oct 15, 10:00 PM

From The Writing Group

The Writing Group is back at Lovebirds – join us! Craft is in session. **Itinerary** Our social hour starts at **6 o'clock**, and you can come and meet other writers, get a drink, socialize and hang out as you like until 7 when we will start readings. At **7 o'clock** we formally get together as a group to listen to readings from those looking for feedback. * We do not select readers based on order of arrival or a sign-up sheet, so if you have work until late but still want to come and read, you can! * Each reader gets five (5) minutes to read, so please select a section of work which is appropriate for that time limit. * We welcome narrative prose (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, and scripts (be they for screen or stage), so long as it is writing that you're serious about. * We'll then spend another five (5) minutes in discussion. This is time for the listeners to provide feedback on the reading and discussing the craft in general. We welcome (and encourage) constructive criticism, so long as it is done with respect. This is just as important as the reading, and is done as an open conversation not lead by the reader or the host, so no hand raising required! * We try to get to as many people who want to read as we can, so if there are a lot of attendees we will be very strict on time. * We take a short break at **8 o'clock** . At **9 o'clock** we finish readings, but you are welcome to stick around! Meet new friends, connect with old ones, exchange longer works for review, or just let loose.

39 attendees

The Writing Group – Halloween Horror Session

Tue, Oct 27, 10:00 PM

From The Writing Group

Join us for first ever genre-specific session! In honor of the holiday, come have a festive cocktail, snack on some candy, and bring your horror genre writing to share. Costumes optional but strongly encouraged. **Itinerary** Our social hour starts at **6 o'clock**, and you can come and meet other writers, enjoy a happy hour, socialize and hang out as you like until 7 when we will start readings. At **7 o'clock** we formally get together as a group to listen to readings from those looking for feedback. * We do not select readers based on order of arrival or a sign-up sheet, so if you have work until late but still want to come and read, you can! * Each reader gets five (5) minutes to read, so please select a section of work which is appropriate for that time limit. * We welcome narrative prose (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, and scripts (be they for screen or stage). This week, we are reading **horror genre works only**! * We'll then spend another five (5) minutes in discussion. This is time for the listeners to provide feedback on the reading and discussing the craft in general. We welcome (and encourage) constructive criticism, so long as it is done with respect. This is just as important as the reading, and is done as an open conversation not lead by the reader or the host, so no hand raising required! * We try to get to as many people who want to read as we can, so if there are a lot of attendees we will be very strict on time. * We take a short break at **8 o'clock** . At 9 o'clock we finish readings, but you are welcome to stick around! Meet new friends, connect with old ones, exchange longer works for review, or just let loose.

24 attendees

The Writing Group at Brooklyn Art Haus

Tue, Oct 20, 10:00 PM

From The Writing Group

From Leftist Progressive Night Out

The Writing Group returns to Brooklyn Art Haus. Join us! Craft is in session. **Itinerary** Our social hour starts at **6 o'clock**, and you can come and meet other writers, get a drink, socialize and hang out as you like until 7 when we will start readings. At **7 o'clock** we formally get together as a group to listen to readings from those looking for feedback. * We do not select readers based on order of arrival or a sign-up sheet, so if you have work until late but still want to come and read, you can! * Each reader gets five (5) minutes to read, so please select a section of work which is appropriate for that time limit. * We welcome narrative prose (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, and scripts (be they for screen or stage), so long as it is writing that you're serious about. * We'll then spend another five (5) minutes in discussion. This is time for the listeners to provide feedback on the reading and discussing the craft in general. We welcome (and encourage) constructive criticism, so long as it is done with respect. This is just as important as the reading, and is done as an open conversation not lead by the reader or the host, so no hand raising required! * We try to get to as many people who want to read as we can, so if there are a lot of attendees we will be very strict on time. * We take a short break at **8 o'clock** . At **9 o'clock** we finish readings, but you are welcome to stick around! Meet new friends, connect with old ones, exchange longer works for review, or just let loose.

22 attendees

Book Club by Leftist-Progressive Night Out!

Sat, Oct 10, 11:00 PM

From NYC Philosophy and Psychology Readers Community

Welcome to the **Leftist-Progressive Book Club at Night!** For our next meeting, we'll be discussing the book [How to Close a Camp Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by John Washington](https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2880-how-to-close-a-camp) **Description** Masked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In *How to Close a Camp*, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do it. In spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting back against camps—and winning. Washington distills strategies and lessons from successful campaigns to close camps and block or slow the opening of new ones, drawing on conversations with veteran organizers from the movement. Chipping away at the infrastructure of the camp is the only way to stave off increasing xenophobic and authoritarian violence. It is time to close all the camps and build a world that no longer requires them. This is a meeting for anyone interested in this book by John Washington. Read and discuss, or if you haven't read it yet, come hang out with like-minded people and get the cliff-notes! This bookstore has amazing Turkish desserts, coffee/tea/espresso, sandwiches, and other dishes available for purchase. Come hungry for good food and great conversation **How to find u**s: We will have a table in the back, behind the cafe counter. You can tell the cashier at the register you are here for the meetup group, and they will point you in the right direction The Book Club by Leftist-Progressive Night Out is a space for thoughtful discussions o**n leftist and leftist-adjacent books, or any other books that we find interestin**g. Whether you’re a longtime reader of progressive literature or you just want to discuss some interesting books, this is the place to engage with great stories, big questions and good company **☕ Drinks & snacks available for purchase**

3 attendees

Articulating Reasons by Robert Brandom Week 3

Sat, Oct 17, 2:00 PM

From NYC Philosophy and Psychology Readers Community

Can you know what a word means without knowing what it refers to? Articulating Reasons is an introduction to Inferentialism, a view in philosophy of language holding that words get their meaning not from what they point to in the world, but from the role they play in reasoning, i.e. what follows from a claim, and what it commits you to. Championed by Robert Brandom and others as an alternative to the traditional referential view, inferentialism offers a genuinely different picture of how language works. We'll draw out connections to logic, epistemology, and metaphysics along the way, exploring the broader consequences of taking inference, rather than reference, as fundamental. Participants should read the entire reading before attending this in person meeting. We will read pages 105-155 for the third week. I will be reading from this version [here](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674006925/?bestFormat=true&k=articulating%20reasons&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-v2_k0_1_19_de&crid=2DUBJ8LYFZ6RG&sprefix=articulating%20reason). For questions please send me a message or post to meetup. Best, Brian

12 attendees

Articulating Reasons by Robert Brandom Week 4

Sat, Oct 24, 2:00 PM

Can you know what a word means without knowing what it refers to? Articulating Reasons is an introduction to Inferentialism, a view in philosophy of language holding that words get their meaning not from what they point to in the world, but from the role they play in reasoning, i.e. what follows from a claim, and what it commits you to. Championed by Robert Brandom and others as an alternative to the traditional referential view, inferentialism offers a genuinely different picture of how language works. We'll draw out connections to logic, epistemology, and metaphysics along the way, exploring the broader consequences of taking inference, rather than reference, as fundamental. Participants should read the entire reading before attending this in person meeting. We will read pages 157-210 for the last week. I will be reading from this version [here](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674006925/?bestFormat=true&k=articulating%20reasons&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-v2_k0_1_19_de&crid=2DUBJ8LYFZ6RG&sprefix=articulating%20reason). For questions please send me a message or post to meetup. Best, Brian

11 attendees

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