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Audreys Book Club

Monday, Nov. 25, 2024
7:00pm to 8:30pm

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Nov.
25

Audreys Book Club is a free monthly gathering for a lively discussion of a chosen title. A great way to pass a Monday night, meet new people with interesting taste in books, and get to know the books that our booksellers love talking about.

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.

Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love?

In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them—chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics.

Elisa Gabbert is the author of Normal DistanceThe Unreality of Memory, and several other collections of poetry, essays, and criticism. She writes the On Poetry column for The New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The AtlanticThe BelieverThe New York Times MagazineThe New York Review of Books, and other publications.

Audreys Books

10702 Jasper Ave NW
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3J5


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