It’s My Party and I’ll Read if I Want To
You've heard of 2-hour cocktail parties.
But what about 2-hour reading parties?
I attended one last week and it was a blast.
Here's how to make reading fun and meet new people by hosting a reading party:
1) Pick a 2-hour timeslot on a... See more
After some research – as well as first-hand experiences – I’m wrapping my head around the concept of clubbing in 2025.
We all know very well how for decades, clubbing, has been a strong form of culture: finding out what was ‘the plan’ for the weekend – and eventually where’s the rave at – was basically dogma. Also, raves and nightclubs were places
... See moreoft clubbing speaks to the shift in our social needs in a post-pandemic world, the very same needs that have led to a rise in run clubs and hobby clubs such as chess and bowling. Previously the club was an adequate provider of your weekly dose of social interaction, a space to dance, socialise and, for many, get intoxicated too. However, for a... See more
Yusuf Ntahilaja • 2025: The Year of ‘Soft Clubbing’
I do this thing called Record Club. I’ve been doing it for, I think, 12 years, with this group of friends—but they’ve been doing it even longer. It’s not really records as in vinyl; it’s just really music, shorthand for music. We get together, a group of about six of us, and we meet about once a month. The idea is everybody brings two things to... See more
Nina Katchadourian on working with what you’re already noticing – The Creative Independent
Now, I’m not so naive as to think that there was some lost golden age of reading. Probably at every moment in reading’s history, reading has been to a great extent the preserve of nerds and eggheads — it’s, almost by definition, what you do when you’re off on your own, when you don’t have anybody who at that moment wants to hang out with you. But... See more