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A Discussion with Author Casey Plett

in partnership with Words Worth Books

2023-11-22 19:00:00 2023-11-22 20:00:00 America/New_York A Discussion with Author Casey Plett IN PERSON, REGISTERED Eastside Branch -

Wednesday, November 22
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-11-22 19:00:00 2023-11-22 20:00:00 America/New_York A Discussion with Author Casey Plett IN PERSON, REGISTERED Eastside Branch -

IN PERSON, REGISTERED

Join us for a discussion with award-winning author Casey Plett as she discusses her new book On Community.

About On Community:

We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it’s slipping away?

We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has come to mean to Plett, emerges.

Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community’s boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another.

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers, and the Publisher at LittlePuss Press. She has written for The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. A winner of the Amazon First Novel Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, her work has also been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She splits her time between New York City and Windsor, Ontario.

Presented in partnership with Words Worth Books.

Programmer: Alex, Nancy, Claire

Casey Plett

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