What are reading parties and why are they sweeping New York (and the rest of the world)

The way we have fun is changing. We don’t say it, but thousands of New Yorkers who are now turning their screens instead booksthose who replaced pub noise with literary debates. Those responsible for this latest trend will name themselves Reading Rhythms and they are revolutionizing modern entertainment with their reading parties.

To our four founders and friends, Ben Bradbury, Tom Worcester, Charlotte Jackson and John Lifrierithey understood one of the great problems of today: we lack free time for ourselves, but at the same time we are increasingly moving towards an isolated society and, worse, isolation, the pandemic of the 21st century. Faced with a seemingly impossible paradox, they managed to find the best solution: “We create relevance through reading”Ben explains Condé Nast Traveller.

The pace of our lives requires us to work, play sports, eat healthy, have time for ourselves, socialize with our friends, read before bed and relax in just 24 hours. “That’s why we created a format that combined the two elements: the solitude of reading with the social element of connection. “That’s how our reading party was born,” Ben explains. What they didn’t know was that night when the first ten people gathered on the roof of a house in Brooklyn would lead to stream currently accumulating waiting lists.

In reality in which the platforms flow and social networks occupy most of our time, It seemed that the reading habits of the the history of death foretoldbut we were wrong. Since they held their first party on June 13, 2023, Reading Rhythms has shown that people also want to disconnect from screens to immerse themselves in the real or, at least, literary world.