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A panel from \u201cThe Object-Lesson\u201d (1958)\u2014Edward Gorey<\/p><\/div>\n

Hello, dear book lovers!<\/p>\n

Welcome to the November edition of the Book Beat Newsletter.<\/p>\n

As the leaves fall, so do our remaining nerves. Election season is here, and we\u2019re feeling the tension\u2014like we’re living in a novel with too many plot twists and an unreliable narrator. Allow Book Beat to be a refuge, where there\u2019s no cliffhanger endings\u2014only stacks of interesting books to provide escape or insight (or both).<\/p>\n

This Sunday, renowned activist Bill Ayers will be at the Huntington Woods Recreation Center discussing his latest book, When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation<\/em><\/a>, exploring radical and common sense ideas about justice, liberation, and the path forward.<\/p>\n

Other events include a weekend with activist Dr. Alice Rothchild, a Book Beat Holiday Gift Night, an Oakland Literacy Council benefit with bestselling author Angie Kim, A Gesu Library fundraiser and more.<\/p>\n

Our repost this month are fragments and a top ten reading list by Ryan Standfest, artist and publisher of dark humor from Rotland Press. This week Ryan came to the bookstore with Brooklyn author and curator Dan Nadel who had just given a lecture at Oakland University. Nadel is a longtime promoter of comics, publisher at PictureBox Studio and the author of CRUMB – an authorized biography of renowned comic creator Robert Crumb coming out in the spring. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Ryan Standfest: collected fragments<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n