
Books and Brew Book Club
Select Wednesdays, 7 PM
Virtual via Zoom or In-Person Outdoors. Registration required.
April 21: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist Bechdel’s poignant and funny graphic novel memoir about living in the town’s funeral home, coming out to her family, and negotiating shifting family dynamics. Register here.
May 19: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
A study of a promising marriage stressed beyond repair when the young husband is wrongfully imprisoned. Winner of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful book tells the story of a promising marriage that is stressed beyond repair when the young husband is wrongfully imprisoned. Depending on weather, this may be an outdoor in-person event, or a virtual event, Please register below to be kept up to date as to the status. Register here.
June 16: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
A field guide to dropping out of the attention economy; learning to rethink and guard one’s focus and one’s wallet. Depending on weather, this may be an outdoor in-person event, or a virtual event. Register here.
Select Thursdays at 7 PM
Virtual via Zoom. Registration required.April 15: Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler
Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy Hendrix. Register here.
May 20: Pulp by Ed Brubaker
Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word–tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-shooter. Register here.
June 17: Y: the Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword by Brian K. Vaughn
(Please read volumes 1, 2 and 3 prior to this discussion) After a devastating plague, Yorrick Brown is the last man left alive in a world of women. On the run from Amazon extremists, Yorrick’s friends leave him in the care of Agent 711, who turns out to be more sinister than expected. Register here.