Book Club Guilt

March 2, 2014

denial. A defense mechanism predicated on your inability to accept the painful reality that you are supposed to be reading the selected novel that you literally tried to bury.” At The Toast, Zane Shetler writes a glossary of book club defense mechanisms. Pair with: Our essay on spying on your book club friends.

is an associate editor for The Millions and an editor in Atlanta. She tweets at @temalone.