Club Tales

Reading The Notion Club Papers 📚 on the train, which leads me to think about the club tales genre. You know, Tales from the White Hart (Clarke), Tales of the Black Widowers (Asimov), and so on... usually short stories, a bunch of blokes get together and talk, which forms a common framing device for the actual tales.

Is it always just men? Are there any examples featuring mixed groups, or all women? Is anyone writing a c21st version?

Trying to work out the rules / conventions of the genre. They're club tales; the framing characters all know each other and meet regularly. Guests are permitted. No one in the club actually tells the story, at least not uninterruptedly; it emerges through conversation. The stories may be something that (allegedly) happened to one of the characters or maybe happened to a friend of a friend. They're tall tales or mysteries or have a twist.

Nothing happens to the members of the club in the context of the framing story. They just talk. But they're strongly drawn characters.