- Justyna Walker
Book clubs are so…passé. At least in Cleveland now, thanks to a trio of young professionals who have started the Booker T. Cleveland Society of the Learned. Fashioned after the Book Club, a Paris literary salon event that has become the place for 20- and 30- somethings to be seen in the City of Lights, our hometown version is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S.
This is no ordinary book club meeting. For starters, the first Booker T. gathering was at the Flying Monkey in Tremont a couple weeks ago, where $2 PBRs went a long way to move things along.
This is a book swap. Everyone must bring a book they love and trade it with someone who has brought one they might be interested in.
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2012.