Gather online with fellow Tigers and delve into a range of literary fiction!
Meeting Schedule: 3rd Monday every month at 7:30 PM
Questions & Zoom Links: devan.kreisberg@gmail.com and domjparisi@aol.com
Next Meetings:
On Monday, October 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., the Princeton Alumni Book Club will meet to discuss Larry McMurtry’s Buffalo Girls (2010, 353 pages). Although The Princeton Alumni Book Club often discusses historical novels, this may be out first “western.” However, this more a book about the end of an era, as characters (such as Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill), who were and will continue to be mythologized, look backwards and forwards as they evaluate their lives and think about how to manage their present realities. The New York Times reviewer noted that “[t]he remarkable power of ‘Buffalo Girls grows out of Mr. McMurtry’s decision to bring his characters alive just as they, and the Wild West they personify, are about to die.”
Then, on Monday, November 17, 2025, we will then turn our attention to modern-day Louisiana and discuss Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half (2020, 350 pages). Bennett adds to the extensive body of fiction and nonfiction about racial passing by viewing it from the experience of twins. A reviewer for NPR noted that it is a page turner that “get[s] to the inner human story, to delve beyond the sensational into difficult issues, and to view flawed characters with understanding rather than judgement and condemnation.