6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Battenkill Books
FREE
Don’t read non fiction? Think again! The Creative Non Fiction Book Club seeks out the most interesting, thought-provoking non fiction out there to discuss in a small group format. Join us for some food for your mind. New members always welcome, no RSVP required!
The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a “Best American Essays” selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of Ander Monson, John D’Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of beast entirely its own.
“Things That Are” takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodies–considering the similarity of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of love and vines, the relations of exploding stars to exploding sea cucumbers–Amy Leach rekindles a vital communion with the wild world, dormant for far too long. “Things That Are” is not specifically of the animal, the human, or the phenomenal; it is a book of wonder, one the reader cannot help but leave with their perceptions both expanded and confounded in delightful ways.
Our book clubs are always open to new members. Attendance is optional – join us when you feel like it; no RSVP required.
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