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Charlotte Higgins has written an interesting piece for the Guardian on the enduring popularity of the book club. Higgins argues that book clubs have outgrown their nominative function as a forum for readers’ bookish passions into a full-blown cultural phenomenon: “What is clear is that the book club is now a near-ubiquitous feature of bourgeois life. If you are not in one, you will know someone who is.” According to Higgins, the reasons for this popularity have much to do with reconnecting social networks that have been fractured by the pace and demands of contemporary living.
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