Critical Reception
The Club has had critical commentaries from the literary community.
Scott Stossel, an editor at The Atlantic, wrote:
- "There is something so relentlessly therapeutic, so consciously self-improving about the book club that it seems antithetical to discussions of serious literature. Literature should disturb the mind and derange the senses; it can be palliative, but it is not meant to be the easy, soothing one that Oprah would make it."
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