JCW: A Book Club for Writers

Join in the JCW Writers Loft on the 3rd Monday of every month for a discussion of literature from a writer's perspective.

October - Identity and Isolation

Convenience Store Woman — Nayaka Murata ~176 pages
The Stranger — Albert Camus ~123 pages

Both feature protagonists alienated from social expectations.
Discussion:

Detached narration
Social norms vs individuality
Character psychology through voice

Joshua Tedeschi is a native Jersey City visual artist and writer working on his first novel. He writes literary fiction and urban-themed short poetry that probe everyday relationships and tensions for broader meaning. His writing appears on Substack and Instagram under his pseudonym Julius Germans (@juliusgermans).

John Schneider is a teacher and writer from New Jersey. He reviews small and independent press fiction on Substack (@johnwschneider)