Reading 'Brave New World' in Aldous Huxley's former home

A book club meets on the terrace of Aldous Huxley's to discuss "Brave New World." A book club meets on the terrace of Aldous Huxley's to discuss "Brave New World." Seated on a veranda high in the Hollywood Hills, a few book clubbers who had gathered to discuss Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" in the author's last Los Angeles home craned their necks. They weren't peering at the softening evening sky or at the Hollywood sign, which loomed so close it looked like white plastic lawn furniture, a prop to rest a drink on. The occasional helicopter had already torn past, momentarily drowning out voices ("a humming overhead had become a roar," as Huxley describes their sinister advance in the novel's climactic scene) but that hardly merited a pause in conversation.