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LAist.com
Book Group Expert for Airtalk with Larry Mantle
(Julie's segment begins on the 17 minute mark).
Book clubs can be a wonderful way to build community. Picture it: a dozen or so people coming together for a common purpose, maybe noshing on a cube of cheese and sipping a glass of wine, everyone getting their moment to participate in the discussion and share sparkling insights. But, like any group endeavor, there can be complicated dynamics to navigate. How do you choose the book? How do you deal with problem members? What’s the secret to making a book club last? Joining us to discuss is Julie Goler, book group facilitator in Los Angeles. But we also want to hear from you! Do you have a long-running and particularly successful book club? What’s your secret? Does your book club focus on a particularly unique genre? Or could you use advice from a book club expert?
purewow.com
Have you started a book club only to see it fall prey to the slow fade? Gathering your bibliophile friends every month can be a challenge, which is why we checked in with book club expert Julie Goler. A professional moderator of monthly book discussions in Los Angeles, Goler is the real deal. (Her longest-running group has been meeting for 18 consecutive years.) Here are her seven most important tips for organizing a book club that has serious staying power.
Elle Magazine
For ELLE's thirtieth anniversary, we're serving up weekly life hacks from 12 expert coaches. Our second expert of the year is Julie Goler, a book club expert who curates monthly, 75-minute salons on titles carefully selected to promote both an emotional journey and intellectual conversation. (Some of her groups—which include celebrities, Hollywood execs, and stay-at-home moms alike—have been meeting for over a decade!) All this month on ELLE.com, Goler will give you the expert tools necessary to start a can't-miss meeting of your own.
Hollywood Reporter
Yes. There's really a job for that.
The Book-Club Leader
Bookworm Julie Goler never imagined she could get paid to read novels and talk about them over a glass of wine. A Beverly Hills High School English teacher, she moonlights as a book-club facilitator (juliesbookgroups.com). If it seems unclear why such a person, at $450 a pop, is needed for a group of friends discussing the astrological components of The Luminaries, just imagine all the clubs that devolve into chatter about kids and office gossip. "I make sure everyone's involved and engaged," says Goler, who suggests books, preps questions, reads up on writer bios and arranges author visits.
Duke Alumni Magazine
If you live in Los Angeles, help is at hand.
Has your book group bogged down in the complexities of A Thousand Splendid Suns? Are you missing the references in The Jane Austen Book Club? Is the plot of Orhan Pamuk's Snow eluding you? If you live in Los Angeles, help is at hand.
Call Julie Goler, professional book-club facilitator. That's right; she gets paid to lead groups of women in productive discussion of the books they read for pleasure.
"I was a voracious reader as a kid and during the time I was at Duke," says Goler, who was an English major. After Duke, Goler earned her master's at Columbia University and then taught English at Stuyvesant High School in New York. "I think I missed Frank McCourt, one of my favorite teaching authors, by a year or two," she says.If you live in Los Angeles, help is at hand.