Flow Reading
Each weekday, Members gather in the Studio to read a passage aloud from our current text. We read the same pages three times, at 7 and 10 am and 2 pm ET.
Upcoming: Book 30. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
You can see the common edition of upcoming books on the 24H’s page at Bookshop.org as well as links to all the books we’ve read since 2021 ( also listed below the the calendar).
There’s also a Bookshop list with Member publications. Send me your title and isbn if you’ve published a book you’d like added.
Upcoming: Book 30. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
24H Flow Marathon | Book # 29
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Pagination in New Directions editions varies. Consult final line (after slash / ) when chapters run over multiple days, if your pagination differs. You may be able to access a digital copy of the book through the Internet Archive, depending on current availability.
The Last of Mr. Norris
1/21 Ch 1
1/22 Ch 2
1/23 Ch 3
1/26 Ch 4
1/27 Ch 5
1/28 Ch 6
1/29 Ch 7
1/30 Ch 8
2/2 Ch 9
2/3 Ch 10
2/4 Ch 11
2/5 Ch 12 | -p 128/ waiter for our bills. [space break]
2/6 12, cont. |p 128 The best part - end
2/9 Ch 13
2/10 Ch 14
2/11 Ch 15
2/12 Ch 16
Goodbye to Berlin | Break readings of partial chapters after final phrase indicated, followed by white space.
2/13 A Berlin Diary, Autumn 1930
1-11
2/16 11-20
2/17 Sally Bowles
21-32 / I set eyes on you!”
2/18 32-43 / go and have a drink.”
2/19 43-54 / each other’s eyes.
2/20 54 / On the evening - 65-76
2/23 On Reugen Island (Summer 1931) |
76-87 / my own experience.”
2/24 87-100
2/25 The Nowaks |
100-111 / you stink of beer!”
2/26 111-121 / out in the jungle alone.
2/27 121-131 / out of the attic.
3/2 131-139
3/3 The Landauers |
139-148 / ashamed of myself.
3/4 148-158 / bought a pair of socks.
3/5 158-173 / my dear Christopher.”
3/6 173-185
3/9 A Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-3) |
186-198 / will close down.”
3/10 198-207
24H Flow Marathon | Book # 30
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
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24H Flow Marathon | Book # 31
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
May 2026
The 24-Hour Room Flow Marathons
From April to December 2021, The 24-Hour Room read Moby-Dick from stem to stern, in 197 short passages.
From June to August, 2021, we read Octavia Butler's Bloodchild and Other Stories.
From September to December 2021, we read War and Peace.
From January 3 - March 17, 2022, we read Toni Morrison's Beloved.
From mid-March - mid-May, 2022, we read To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
From mid-May to June 2022, we read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
From June to July, 2022, we read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
From July-September, 2022, we read The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
From September to December 2022, we read Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald.
From December 2022 to May 2023 we read The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead.
From May to August 2023 , we read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
From August 2023 to October 2023, we read Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles.
From October to December 2023, we read Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor.
From December 2023 to January 2024, we read Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.
From January to March 2024, we read Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.
From April to May 2024, we read The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
June to July 2024, we read Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley.
From July to December 2024, we read James Joyce’s Ulysses .
During the Lame Duck period between the 2024 election and the end of Joe Biden’s term, we read Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth.
From mid-January to mid February 2025, we read Medea by Christa Wolf.
From mid-February to April 2025, we read Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
In April and May 2025, we read Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather.
From mid-May to June 2025, we read The Trial and “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
In July 2025, we read Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
In August 2025, we read Tell Me a Riddle by Tille Olson.
In September 2025, we read The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines.
In October and November 2025, we re-read Moby-Dick.