We usually meet in the middle of the day, but with sunset not arriving until after 8pm this time of year we have the opportunity to do the occasional after-work event for the convenience of those of us who toil at 9-to-5 jobs. This Friday we met downtown in the vicinity of Battery Park and watched the sun take its leisurely plunge toward the Hudson. Frisbee players and little kids with water guns and sundry other New Yorkers bade the week goodbye as we read Borges and Zadie Smith and Life of Pi and Gypsy Rose Lee’s The G-String Murders. (Isn’t only one of those properly pulp fiction? Well, yes. But it’s fun to branch out from time to time. And we also had a choice selection of morsels from Hard Case Crime, including advance copies of Brainquake and Easy Death, to give us our RDA of pulp in our diet.)
We didn’t quite make it to sundown (it got a bit chilly, forcing us back into our shirts), but it was a lovely afternoon and evening, out by the water, taking the air, our brazen shirtlessness not bothering anyone. It felt so…civilized. And at the same time, so natural.
Want to join us next time? We welcome open-minded women of all backgrounds, ages, comfort levels, and literary tastes. Just drop an email to toplesspulpfiction[AT]gmail[DOT]com and we’ll add you to our super-secret invite list…
BORGES! I like the argentinian Jorge Luis Borges, who won el Premio Cervantes, the spanish most important one and deserved the Nobel that never take home. It seems you read Ficciones (Fictions), one of his best prose works with El Aleph. I’ve read Ficciones and beleive is a kind of literature that maybe is at the other side of Pulp fiction one. But I like you put in your bibliography latin american writers. Before I heard of García Marquez maybe next Paz, Vargas Llosa, Asturias and why not poems of Neruda and Mistral.
We had a member who brought Neruda to one of our rooftop gatherings.
Zadie Smith- definitely not pulp fiction as you acknowledge. If you ever decide to explore the area in London that White Teeth is set in, there are a couple of parks suitable for a meeting of the Society.
Hello i am french loooove pics beautiful
How do you ladies spend so much time in the sun without getting a tan, are you all slathering on the sunscreen?
Bye the way, nice to see some guys there too, you don’t look so “exclusive” that way. 🙂
We do use plenty of sunscreen, yes. But this last gathering was late enough in the day that we didn’t really need it. 🙂
It looks like sunset was a magical time to be in the park!
Better than HAPPY HOUR…..
I love the lady with the orange skirt and the other sporting well worn vibram soles. Both say wonderful things about the people wearing them. A flexibility of mind and body.
The girl with the chest piece…
Hello i loooove pics beautiful
That last photo is so striking. It makes me wonder what she’s thinking about.