JCW: A Book Club for Writers
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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)
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