Read. Talk. Share.
Read our book of the month and join us for a discussion online! Simply register via Eventbrite to receive the Zoom access info. Let's keep reading and sharing experiences with the material!
Book Klub is free and open to everyone interested, but participants must purchase the individual texts themselves and are expected to have read the title to be discussed prior to the meeting. Get a copy of the book through our friends at
Elliott Bay Book Company.
This month’s selection is available in English and in German. The discussion will be in English.
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About the book:
Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller
On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4: Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent (“11: Investigate”), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clichéd phrases for the sake of mass appeal (“9: Be kind to our language”), and more.
In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in
Belonging—at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories—to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder’s riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of
On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.
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About the author:
Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University and the author of
The Road to Unfreedom,
On Tyranny,
Black Earth, and
Bloodlands. His work has received the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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About the illustrator:
Nora Krug is the author of the award-winning graphic memoir
Belonging and an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her drawings and visual narratives have appeared in
The New York Times, The
Guardian, and
Le Monde diplomatique. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and of medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club.
Interested in hearing from Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug? Don't miss our online talk with the author and illustrator on October 29 at 6pm PT. Find more info
here.
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