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Bushwick Book Club Continues to Grow with 10 Chapters Worldwide, a New Podcast, and School Program

This literary-focused performance group started in Bushwick in 2009.

Bushwick Book Club Continues to Grow with 10 Chapters Worldwide, a New Podcast, and School Program

Bushwick Book Club Continues to Grow with 10 Chapters Worldwide, a New Podcast, and School Program

This literary-focused performance group started in Bushwick in 2009.

Bushwick Book Club Continues to Grow with 10 Chapters Worldwide, a New Podcast, and School Program

The Bushwick Book Club isn’t your typical book club: there’s no quiet semi-circle sitting in someone’s living room pouring over guided reading questions. Instead, members of the Bushwick Book Club perform interpretations of narratives, “employing the talents of local songwriters, artists and chefs who plumb the depths of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing – a new song (or visual art, dance, film or snack)” on a monthly basis.

The Bushwick Book Club (BBC) started in 2009 when founder, Susan Hwang dared owner of the late Goodbye Blue Monday , Steven Trimboli, to have her perform songs based on…

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