Reading Groups

Cover to Cover: Regina Porter’s The Travelers with Susan Fox

Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 30, 2025

The Center for Fiction

This single-session group is held in person at The Center for Fiction. Registration includes a complimentary drink from our Café & Bar.

The ‘With Books’ option includes the title required for this group at a 10% discount from our Bookstore.

In The Travelers, playwright turned novelist Regina Porter braids the narratives of two core families from different races and regions into a quintessentially American saga spanning three continents and half a century. Porter writes with a keen awareness of how the forces of personal and national history bring the past to the doorstep of the present and also how love, resilience, intellectual pursuit, and ambition help dull the sharp edges of postponed, redirected, or shattered dreams.

We’ll tug at the braided threads of these tales to explore how tightly held secrets and trauma corrosively seep or erupt through psyches—often with a pronounced effect on family and even those connected via weaker ties.

What to read in advance of the first meeting: Participants should read The Travelers by Regina Porter in its entirety.

What to expect from this reading group: This session will be conversational with the facilitator moderating the discussion, inviting and encouraging participants to ask questions of and offer insights to our gathered community of “Travelers.”

Reading List:

The Travelers by Regina Porter

Led by

Susan Fox

Susan Fox

Susan Fox is a media generalist with experience in segment production at CBS News’s 60 Minutes, and program development, video-journalism, and documentary film production at Thirteen/WNET where she co-produced a three-part PBS series on the history of the American car and solo-produced a travel series pilot tracing her Guyanese roots. She has studied acting with the British American Drama Academy at Oxford, performed off-Broadway, co-hosted a parenting web-series and been both a story and copy editor for a Brooklyn neighborhood broadsheet. Susan’s writing includes articles about her family’s traumatic experience with September 11th, women mothering through menopause during the pandemic, and Black women playwrights. Passionate about both fiction and non-fiction, she cherishes reading in community and is known to serially devour texts to slide into scheduled book groups for the joy of learning and sharing insights with fellow readers. She has a B.A. in History from Yale University and a Certificate in Journalism from New York University.

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