Before the Club of Culture Knights, there was darkness.

A once firm friendship was rent asunder by distance. Ben, the visionary, proposed a regular meeting of the minds to emulate the Enlightenment salons of old.

Since July 2014, the Club of Culture Knights has met to expand the horizons of its members.

The Club of Culture Knights is America’s preeminent book club comprising four friends who met at American University and dispersed across the country after graduation.