City Bookclub

Join this fiction book club to explore the topics that stories inspire us to share. We will enjoy conversations, connections and community. Think of it like a network of women all talking about the stories inspired by reading.

By Julia Wilson

· Launched 6 months ago

Julia Wilson

I love stories, whether they’re told around a kitchen table or in books, art, design, music, film, or tv. I’m a storyteller, too! I like to write, create art, and talk w/ friends.

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Did The Very Best Writers Get Hired Back?

Or is it AI? I saw the early showing of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day and I have hope for TV and MOVIES again! This action film has a plot so fresh that it makes me think the best writers are back in Hollywood! I’m terrible at noticing the negative points in a story unless I can relate. So wha…

2026 May playlist.

May means Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day is a lot.

Being a daughter or motherless, being a mother, or not, or being estranged from your mother are just a handful of ways the day can be a lot. This is the stuff that spoke to me this month and made the days around Mother’s Day make sense. It’s a little bit dreamy pop, a little …

Strawberry Moon

Tori Amos

Rein Me InExplicit Content

Sam Fender & Olivia Dean

Water Underground

Real Estate

The Feminine Urge

The Last Dinner Party

Razorblades And Runways

The Revivalists

Chills

JOSEPH

Carroll

Marielle Kraft & William Hinson

Life On The Run

Brandi Carlile

Young in Love in HollywoodExplicit Content

Lola Bates

Burst

Snowcuffs

This Side of Heaven

Elley Duhé

Can I Have A Moment

Daisy the Great

Clothesline

The All-American Rejects

Neighborhood Cat

Marty Blick

Steal Away

Keith Urban

Last American Waltz

Old Crow Medicine Show & Molly Tuttle

Dance Like You

Nanseera

If you like the stuff from Snowcuffs, they’re a Chicago band and could use your attention, purchases, or attendance at a show. Troy and I saw them over Memorial Day weekend. They were dreamy and hypnotic live. Marty Blick is a good Chicago artist, too. I couldn’t not put his song Neighborhood Cat, on here. His voice has kind of a sublime Morrissey feel. Plus topic choice for the song is 👌🏽.

This month offered a lot of rehashed covers, and a lot of 90’s rocker band castaways. I like a bunch of it, but there are also some things that just didn’t need remade. (I’m looking at you Delta Dawn.) You’ll only find the cover of Steal Away from KU and some new stuff from All-American Rejects on here. I recommend you check out iTunes new music 🎵 playlists if you want to hear the covers or the new stuff from the old bands.

2025 December

everything, in time

Ella Eyre

Christmas Celebration

B.B. King

Heaven Sent

The SteelDrivers

Dooley's Farm (feat. Billy Strings)

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

No Way Out (Songs From and Inspired by the Paramount+ Original Series Landman (Volume II))

The Jack Wharff Band

Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (feat. Brandi Carlile)

Sara Bareilles

Winsome Lose Some Game

The Prickly Pair

That'll Show Em

Tim Gearan

Fascination in the Dark (Acoustic)

Vance Joy

Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)

The Pogues

All For You

Session Americana

RosemaryExplicit Content

The Prickly Pair

American Flowers

Birds of Chicago

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

Tell Her

Bruno Major

Coming into the holidays with a bop. Art by Selena Olivarri

Reading Together in 2026

I created a bookclub in 2025 that became a source of so much joy and so many new friends! The ladies I met in the first few months were wonderful and by April we were all so close with one another th…