Welcome to our September 2023 Book Club selection: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley. Pick up the workplace memoir to enjoy, and we will discuss it on our September Book Club Chat on Tuesday, September 26th, at 8 pm EST. ⁠ The chats will run for about 60 minutes and be hosted by Regina Garay and Cindy Howard.

INFO ON THE BOOK SELECTION Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, watching the two-million-square-foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then, his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer, and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise and the listener's delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

INFO ON THE AUTHOR Patrick worked for a decade as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His new memoir has been lauded in the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, NPR, and Sunday Times (London). Previously, he worked in the editorial events office at the New Yorker magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.