4.20.26
Books clubs throughout Los Angeles have evolved into unconventional and diverse community-focused events, reports Malia Mendez of the Los Angeles Times. “Driven by Gen Z and millennial organizers eager to shed the isolation of the pandemic era, events ranging from book crawls to silent reading parties are successfully turning time spent with literature into happening social occasions.” The duo behind the Preoccupied literary platform even started a walking book club, which includes a forty-minute stroll with a featured author followed by shopping at a local bookstore.