Salman Rushdie
on Voltaire’s Candide
Coming this fall
Great books, read in company.
Spend hours listening to Salman Rushdie talk through Candide, Margaret Atwood through A Tale of Two Cities, and Roxane Gay through The Age of Innocence. Real, unscripted conversation about every chapter, plus films and essays around every book.
Not a lecture. Not a course. A conversation you get to experience.
Founding membership opens this fall. This list gets in first, at the lowest rate we will ever offer, locked in for as long as you stay. We’ll only write when there’s something worth hearing.
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Every book comes with someone who knows it best.
For each book in the catalog, a reader who has spent years with it, a novelist, a scholar, a philosopher, reads it with you from the first page to the last.
Margaret Atwood
on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
Roxane Gay
on Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Clancy Martin
on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
These are the first four. There are more.
Join the list for new names and first listens before anyone else.
What you get
Every book, three ways in.
Listen
Hours of your guide talking through the book: the walk-through, the tangents, the big questions. The book opened up in a way it’s never been for most readers.
Watch
Filmed conversations with the guides themselves, on the book, the author, and why it still gets under their skin.
Read
Essays on the world the book came out of, the character everyone misreads, and the questions these books are still asking about how we live now.
One membership, the whole expanding library, anywhere, anytime.
Be a Founding Reader
This fall, this list gets the lowest rate we will ever offer, locked in for as long as you stay. After launch, it’s gone.
First access. Lowest-ever rate, locked in.
You’re on the list.
Check your inbox — there’s a note confirming your spot. After that we’ll only write when there’s something worth saying: a new guide, a first listen, and, before anyone else, your founding invitation.
Founding spots are better shared. Know someone who’s always meant to read the classics? Send them this page and they’ll get first access too.