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New Reading Series We Are Strongly Considering Hosting

The New Yorker · Jun 4, 2026, 10:00 AM

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  • Photograph by Hal Bergman / Getty Save this story Save this story Save this story Save this story How, in this day and age, do you make it abundantly clear that you love to read?
  • All Trauma: A totally unthemed reading series across all genres, at which fiction writers, poets, and essayists all happen to read the most depressing shit you have ever heard in your life.
  • Schadenfreude: Every piece is in German.

Photograph by Hal Bergman / Getty Save this story Save this story Save this story Save this story How, in this day and age, do you make it abundantly clear that you love to read? Sure, you can carry around a giant book, buy a tote that says “I Love Reading,” or carry an e-reader in a tote that says “I Love Reading on My E-reader (I’m NOT Looking at the Internet).” But the easiest way to inform people that you are literary is by hosting a reading series. You’ll want yours to have a catchy premise. Here are some we’re thinking about.

Oops! All Trauma: A totally unthemed reading series across all genres, at which fiction writers, poets, and essayists all happen to read the most depressing shit you have ever heard in your life. Sorry about your cousin!

Schadenfreude: Every piece is in German. We do not speak German.

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