Wed, Sep 30
|Arthur Fiedler Statue
Fall Book Club
Have you had this on your TBR list forever too? Let's finally read, theorize, and puzzle out this mammoth of a book together all fall long.
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Arthur Fiedler Statue, Charles River Esplanades, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Guests
About the event
Let's kick off fall by reading the Inception of books, the one and only literary nesting doll—House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
House of Leaves is an epistolary novel that contains stories within stories: A family in a home on Ash Tree Lane that begins to grow cold hallways and impossible rooms. A blind scholar named Zampanò writes a manuscript that analyzes a film about this home called The Navidson Record. After Zampanò dies, a young man named Johnny Truant assembles the pages, adds footnotes, and drifts into his own troubled story. The novel cuts between domestic scenes, expedition footage, academic debate, and Johnny’s notes.
The page layout and typography are experimental and part of the storytelling, so a print edition is necessary for this read.
We will gather on Sept 23rd at the Arthur Fielder Statue on the Charles River Esplanade and chat about our theories/expectations of the…