Do you regret not talking to the hot person on the train reading a book you like? Did your last Hinge date reveal that they haven’t read a book since high school? If you replied yes to any of the above, you are invited to join a new McNally Jackson book club! In lieu of a traditional sit-down discussion we’ll mix and mingle at our Seaport beer and wine bar and discuss Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. It’s James Baldwin’s 100th birthday, so we have no choice but to pick up his beautiful, groundbreaking novel, Giovanni’s Room. Originally published in 1956, it tells the story of David, an American living in Paris who has just proposed to his girlfriend, but finds himself embroiled in an affair with a bartender named Giovanni. Recently named one of The Atlantic’s top 100 books of the past 100 years, this novel is full of beauty, desire, and heartbreak.