The advent of the bookish night out feels like that rarest of things - progress
‘Bookworms were bookworms, clubbers were clubbers and never the twain did meet’ For ages yet! In rented accommodation with strangers, for the most part, however much avocado toast-eating and latte-drinking they abstain from.
More and more venues, it seems, are offering the opportunity to go and read in company. Food and live music are often provided, along with readings from BookTok – the subset of TikTok that does so much these days to promote authors and drive sales through word-of-mouth travelling at lightning speed – influencers.
The point is, my dream of a night in which people would gather to enjoy themselves relatively quietly and take time out whenever they needed it to restore themselves by reading before hurling themselves back into the – gentle, considered – fray was just that; a dream. You couldn’t have it. It simply couldn’t be done. There was no merging of the streams.
And it feels like a revivifying kick against many pricks. It feels like we have got one over on the internet. Or at least it feels like we have got one over on the people who designed and who control the internet, so that it rewards fuelling rage and sowing the division that generates so many more clicks and so much more revenue than harmony does.
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