Join us for a discussion with award-winnin g author Casey Plett as she discusses her new book On Community.< /p>\n
About On Community:
\nWe need comm unity to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it& rsquo\;s slipping away?
\nWe are all hinged to some definition of a community\, be it as simple as where we live\, complex as the beliefs we s hare\, 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 c onversation about the larger implications of community as a word\, an idea \, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community\, a nd what it has come to mean to Plett\, emerges.
\nLooking at phenome na from transgender literature\, to Mennonite history\, to hacker houses o f Silicon Valley\, and the rise of nationalism in North America\, Plett de lves into the thorny intractability of community&rsquo\;s boons and faults . Deeply personal\, authoritative in its illuminations\, \;On Comm unity is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse t hat asks how\, and to what socio-political ends\, we form bonds with one a nother.
\nCasey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman\, Little Fish\ , A Saf e Girl to Love\, the co-editor of Meanwhile\, Elsewhere: Scie nce Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers\, and the Publisher at LittlePuss Press. She has written for The New York Times\, Harper&rsquo \;s Bazaar\, The Guardian\, The Globe and Mail\, McSweeney&rsquo\;s Intern et Tendency\, the Winnipeg Free Press\, and other publications. A winner o f 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 nom inated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She splits her time between New Yo rk City and Windsor\, Ontario.
\nPresented in partnership with Words Worth Books.
\nProgra mmer: Alex\, Nancy\, Claire
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