Brodernism is a disparaging critical term for the kind of long, difficult, maximalist literature that’s often but not always written by dudes. Think Ulysses, Gravity’s Rainbow, 2666, but also The Making of Americans and Ducks, Newburyport. Easy to mock and not always easy to read, but exactly the sort of challenge some of us want in a book. Which is why we’re embracing the term and hosting a bi-monthly book club to wrestle with this literature together.

At our first meeting we’ll be discussing Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, and we’ll also be taking suggestions for titles to put on our collective reading list for the rest of the year.

Get your copy ahead of time in the store or online.