New York Topless Book Club Takes Off
Alison Flood writes: ‘I am not a member of a book club – perhaps it is rooted in the days of my education, but I just feel that I’d hate having to read something by a certain time. However, I am loving this week’s slew of articles about New York’s Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society, a book group which loves “good books and sunny days and enjoying both as nearly in the altogether as the law allows.” As it’s sunny in New York, they’ve been stripping off all over the place, most recently “the rooftop sundeck of a nude-friendly, gay-friendly, everything-friendly boutique hotel,” where they read books “from hardboiled crime yarns to ancient-astronaut tracts to the indescribably glorious ‘Abraham Lincoln, Presidential Fuck Machine.'”