Book Club
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Yale Club of Vermont Book Club’s next meeting happens on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. on Zoom. The book is Twist, by Collum McCann. Register here.

“EVERYTHING GETS FIXED, AND WE ALL STAY BROKEN”

Twist is a propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin.

Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel.

“Colum McCann gives us a powerfully realist novel of men at sea, literally, emotionally, and metaphorically. It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world. The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean.”—Salman Rushdie

“McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness, but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compelling. This is an ambitious novel, note-perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious twenty-first-century malaise—the great loneliness of the connected world.”—Kevin Barry

THE GAME in Vermont
2025-11-22 12:00 - 16:00
Watch and cheer with the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Vermont gather at McGillicuddy’s Pub in Essex Junction for this annual event. We’ll have a private room, a big television, old friends and new. You’ll order off the menu as you wish. RSVP below to let us know you’re coming.

Book Club: January 14: The Director
2026-01-14 19:00 - 20:30
The Director, by Daniel Kehlman, is a New York Times top five fiction books of 2025

This fascinating historical novel follows the later career of G.W. Pabst, the brilliant German film director who created Pandora’s Box and the Threepenny Opera, and who made both Garbo and Louise Brooks world famous. A few years before World War II, Pabst and his wife and son settle in Hollywood, then in Paris, before he is pressured to return to Austria where his aging mother lives, on the eve of the invasion of Poland. We observe him and his family as they each learn to live in the Third Reich’s reality of strongmen, implicit threats and ethical choices. Pabst remains a director first and foremost, attempting to imprint his visual style to any film he may find himself forced to make. He faces the prospect of compromising every creative principle he once held. Timely and complex, and often quite funny, this is a portrait of one man’s test of integrity in an increasing fracturing world. You must register to participate.
