Meg Wolitzer

Save the date.

Plan ahead, make some space, because someone you know and love is getting married, celebrating an anniversary, or hosting another sort of unmissable happening.

Invitation to follow.

Simple.

Of course, that postcard and those three little words can inspire very different reactions, depending on the recipient.

Many of us receive them with joy and delight.

We send our tuxes to the cleaners and begin plotting how we might coerce the DJ to play Purple Rain for the final song of the night.

Others, well, not so much.

More on this in a minute.

Now, we at Selected Shorts recently hosted an event, a save-the-date kind of occasion, that left us with the afterglow that comes after a successful soiree.

Each year, we bring our show from New York to the beautiful Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Already amazing.

Our most recent visit, however, was even more exciting as we worked with a new partner, the Bellatrist Book Club.

For those who don't know it, well, first, Bellatrist is a French word for a writer whose work is beautiful or artistic rather than, say, academic.

The Bellatrist Book Club is the vibrant online community built by two longtime friends, actor Emma Roberts and producer Cara Price.

As bookworms, they regularly shared recommendations and wanted to expand their circle as they passed their favorite new reads back and forth.

As big admirers of the Bellatrist community and their incredible author picks, we asked Roberts and Price to help us curate and host two shows at the Getty, and they said yes.

Today's show, the stories, and the actors you'll hear are a direct result of our collaboration with Bellatrist.

Here are Bellatrist co-founders Emma Roberts and Cara Price introducing themselves at the Getty Center.

That was Emma Roberts and Cara Price, co-founders of the Bellatrist Book Club, from the stage at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.