Book Club

Beginning June 21, 2010 we (anyone!) will be reading Leo & His Circle, a biography of the famed gallerist Leo Castelli by Annie Cohen Solal. We use Twitter to communicate with each other about the book.

I selected this book because

• I’m fascinated by gallerists and how they become successful. I imagine most artists are as well.
• There are few gallerists more successful and influential than Leo Castelli in the American 20th century. Castelli is a key figure.
• The book is brand new. It was just released in May and I want to be among the first to read it. Having your support will help me get through the pages.

Read The New Yorker review.

The New York Times review notes the books failings.

Join us! It’s FREE!

All you have to do is

1. Pick up a copy of the book and join in the conversation.

2. Leave your Twitter username in a comment on this page to let us know you’re joining in.

3. Start reading! Let’s shoot for 100 pages a week. That’s a lot for this dense 470-page book, so we’ll have to see what happens. But if we drag it out longer than 5 weeks, I think we’d lose people.

4. Use the #LeoC hashtag in your tweet when you’re talking about something you read in the book. (Too many astrologists are tweeting #leo, so I added the c to the end.)

5. To follow along and see what others are saying, go to search.twitter.com and enter the #LeoC hashtag. Here’s that direct link.

There are no other rules, so don’t even ask. We make it up as we go along. C’mon! It’ll be fun!

New to Twitter? Read about using #hashtags and @names on Twitter.

PREVIOUS READS

Fall 2009
Everybody Who Was Anybody by Janet Hobhouse
A biography of Gertrude Stein

Summer 2009
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Willem de Kooning