Welcome to Reading Club at La Camionera, where we read and discuss queer, literary and theory classics, every Sunday from 3pm!
Feel free to arrive early to do some reading before we begin (or stay later and keep chatting!) Each session will begin with an introduction to the text of the week, before opening up into group discussion and a chance to break off into smaller circles. Every attendee will receive a book review card to fill out, prompts to guide discussion, and a suggestion for further readings.
Drop in for your favourites, or join us every week. Readers of all experiences very welcome. Finishing the text beforehand is advised but not essential <3
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Reading List #1 (Autumn 2025): Indulge in tales of introspection, eroticism and transformation, as we trace desire through the strange and the beautiful..
Week 1 (Nov 2): Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Week 2 (Nov 23): The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
Week 3 (Nov 30): Eros the Bittersweet – Anne Carson
Week 4 (Nov 7): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
Week 5 (Dec 14): Woman of the Flowers – Jean Genet
Week 6 (Dec 21): Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Week 2: Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
From Woolf’s fantastical and opinionated biography of Orlando, we travel to Rio, where Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star offers us another multi-layered masterpiece of social observation and inner monologue. Only seventy-pages long, and densely packed with Lispetor’s wisdom and witticism, here we find the highly neurotic Rodrigo S.M. and his own autobiographical subject Macabea, as we unravel what it means to be love and be free.
Prompts:
How does Lispector write through (or challenge) Rodrigo? What is the relationship between author and narrator?
What is the distance between Macabea’s experience of life, and Rodrigo’s representation of it?
How can we interpret the ‘hour of the star’?
READ THE PDF - HERE
WATCH ‘HOUR OF THE STAR’ BY SUZANA AMAREL (1985) - HERE