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Queer Book Club

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

Queer Book Club will be meeting Wednesday, September 17th, at 7 pm; we will be reading WORTHY OF THE EVENT by Vivian Blaxwell.

About the book:

Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai'i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven devastatingly intelligent parts, her essay covers a vast range in time and space -- from the arson of a Japanese temple to a transformative encounter with a coral reef, from Nietzsche and Hegel to Indigenous metaphysics, from a perplexing relationship with a beautiful man to the unknowable minds of animals. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured, Worthy of the Event belatedly establishes Vivian Blaxell as one of the major writers of her generation.

Earlier Event: September 16
Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail
Later Event: September 18
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