The Desk Book Club: ‘Longthroat Memoirs’ June Discussion
Plus: Zoom info for Sunday!
This Sunday, at 2 p.m. EST, we will have our wrap-up Zoom conversation of this book. The link is below the paywall. Everyone is welcome to join, whether you’ve read the book or not, as the conversation naturally expands from the reading. I look forward to seeing everyone, and I will send another reminder of the link just beforehand.
Next month, we will vote on the books for the 2025 Desk Book Club. We don’t have another discussion until September, when we’ll be reading Dan Saladino’s Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them. If you’d like to join that conversation over three months, sign up as a paid subscriber for $30 a year. I’m excited to be accountable with everyone to reading this book that I’ve been intending to dig into since it came out!
The final essay in Longthroat Memoirs is short, but I think it contains the entirety of the book’s message. Aríbisálà, with her claim to never having been “culturally obedient,” has clearly been culturally observant—and wildly loving, even when critical or exasperated.