Join us for October's meeting of our monthly Nonfiction Book Club to discuss Monsters by Claire Dederer! We'll be touching on topics such as how we relate to artists, the relationship between artists' lives and their work, monstrosity in artists, and more in our bookseller-led discussion.
Please bring your bright ideas, favourite passages, or simply bring yourself for what promises to be a stimulating discussion!
Attendance is free and open to all but registration is encouraged.
Monsters
Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle and Ziggy Stardust.
And what are we to do with that love? How are we, as fans, to reckon with the biographical choices of the artists whose work sustains us?
Wildly smart and insightful, Monsters is an exhilarating attempt to understand our relationship with art and the artist in the twenty-first century.
