The Gamble House Book Club: DUST JACKET JOURNEYS
Tuesday October 13, 2026 at 5:30pm
Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson
FREE – RSVP requested
Join us for our book club, Dust Jacket Journeys, where we invite you to explore perspectives around architecture, art, identity, and place with us on the second Tuesday of each month.
Each gathering will offer an opportunity for exploring diverse perspectives, sharing discoveries, and the exchange of ideas which make for a meaningful reading experience. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Gamble House opening to the public, the theme this quarter is Museum Musings. Together we will delve into the personal, cultural, and societal impacts of museums both big and small. We look forward to sharing a literary journey to new perspectives and new understandings one book at a time.
Metropolitan Stories:
Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts.
A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
Attend Dust Jacket Journeys and receive a 20% off coupon for the next featured book. Books available at https://shop.gamblehouse.org/collections/dust-jacket-journeys
Next Book Club: The Programme of Absolute Disorder on November 10