Group Text: NYU Skirball Book Club

Paired with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind

Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues.

Paired with Florentina Holzinger: Apollon

A down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Paired with Toshiki Okada: Eraser Mountain

Two brilliant, multi-layered stories, demonstrating the fluidity and richness of this extraordinarily gifted writer’s language and ideas.

Paired with Carolina Bianchi: Lobo

Ada was born with one foot on the other side. Having prayed her into existence, her parents struggle to deal with the volatile and contradictory spirits peopling their troubled girl.

Paired with Madboots Dance: Holy

A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. 

Paired with Pavel Zustiak: Hebel

Space Struck explores, in verse, the wonders and cruelties occurring within the realms of nature, science, and religion.

Paired with Les Ballets C de la B: Requiem Pour L

Haunted and haunting — a coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.

Paired with Philippe Quesne: The Moles

One of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives.