Austin: The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Readers Club

Welcome to our 216th event!

We are reading the story "Lost Child" by Joyce Carol Oates. The length is 14 pages. This story is published in the print edition of September 21st, 2026.

Link is provided in the comments section below and will be visible once you sign up for the event.

We will be starting our discussion at 7:45pm.

We also would like everyone to please RSVP if you plan to attend and update it if your plans change promptly. This is critical for our event planning purposes. We very much appreciate it.

Meetup structure: 7:00pm -- 7:45pm: Socializing and/or catch up on the reading for the meetup

7:45pm -- 8:00pm: Introductions and presentation of summary of the text

8:00pm -- 8:50pm: Discussion on the short-story

8:50pm -- 9:00pm: Voting on the short-story and Goodbyes

Please note that we are an inclusive space that welcome folks from diverse backgrounds and we wholeheartedly welcome and support LGBTQIA+, nonbinary members and Allies. We are always striving to reach out and embrace diverse voices within our Austin community. We hope you get to join our event!

WaitList explanation: Meetup.com's engine schedules and adds folks in the waitlist automatically. Folks with higher-tier memberships are prioritized by the Meetup system. As organizers, we don't have a say in it and we don't change the order in which the people are waitlisted.

[KUT's Sean Saldana, a member of our meetup, recently did a story about us: read here!](https://www.kut.org/life-arts/2025-10-02/new-yorker-reading-club-austin-tx-central-market)