Or, "Word After Word: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Book Club" — "Speculative fiction" (science fiction, fantasy, horror) has always been a vehicle for writers to explore identity, social inequality, the strangeness of the world, and the hopes and fears for the future. In this monthly book club we'll be reading works of speculative fiction by women and nonbinary writers, discussing the ways these works make us think, feel, and reflect on reality.
Hosted by Haley Cowans: an editor, former bookseller, and secret writer of unpublished fiction, essays, and poems. She has worked on various projects with Two Dollar Radio and also enjoys volunteering at Thurber House. Her lifelong obsessions include Joan of Arc, animated film, and browsing staff recommendations at bookstores. Her most recent obsession is her adopted cat Lulu.
November 27, 2018, 7pm: This month's pick is
Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
"Ellingsen charts a new course that is at times Kafkaesque and always mesmerizing. An ambiguous and luminous and mysterious text that changes shape and meaning on rereading, as with all the the best fiction."
—Electric Literature
PAST PICKS:
October 2018: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
September 2018: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, published by Akashic.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
August 28, 2018: The Only Ones by Carola Dibbell, published by Two Dollar Radio.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
July 19, 2018: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
