For this all-male book club, reading has been a shared pleasure for 30 years

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Since May 1996, a radical of neighbors has met astir each period to speech astir books.

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A men’s publication nine holds its monthly gathering successful Silver Spring, Maryland, connected April 19. The nine volition observe its 30th day successful May. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post)

On a sunny Sunday day successful precocious April, 8 men successful Silver Spring, Maryland, gathered for a monthly contented that began 30 years ago: a publication nine meeting.

The nine is an eclectic radical of men, mostly successful their 70s — a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse English teacher, a retired diplomat, an Israeli Army seasoned — and they work widely. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Faulkner, Dostoevsky, J.K. Rowling. “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters successful the End” by Atul Gawande. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin.

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