On September 23, from 6-7pm, our good friend Brie Soares will be hosting the first meeting of the Post-Literate Literature Society Book Club (don’t you just love it?). In a world where literacy rates are falling and text shorthand is replacing full sentences, the PLLS Book Club is akin to an old-fashioned salon of sorts, a place to gather and appreciate great literature (we’re aiming to choose novels of 200 pages or less). First up will be Ursula Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest. Copies available in the bookshop.

In Le Guin’s novel, Terrans (Earth humans) and Althsheans (indigenous inhabitants) clash in a story that explores colonialism, environmental degradation, pacifism, matrilineal societies, masculinity, and the author’s personal activism during the Vietnam War.