The July Book Club – The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

HOW have we never done this one?? We are honestly baffled. Apparently this is the summer of correcting inexcusable oversights in book club! Join us on July 15th at 7PM ET to discuss Angela Carter’s brilliant short story collection, The Bloody Chamber. This is the work that really kicked off all the subversive, uncanny, fascinating fairy-tale retellings we all love, and we cannot wait to talk about it with you (especially the less popular but no less brilliant stories that we never get to talk about!)

Here are a few reviews:

“A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant.” – Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

“She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality: dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.” – Ian McEwan

“She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque styleist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber – her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.” – Margaret Atwood, The Observer

If you would like to join us, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of July!