Charlie Jane Anders presents 'Lessons in Magic and Disaster'

(BOOKS) If you’ve read the news at all in the past few weeks, I guarantee that sitting in on a chat with Charlie Jane Anders will do your soul some good. Anders’s fantasy/sci-fi writing doesn’t feel like an exercise in escapism. It feels like potential. She talks about sci-fi as “dreaming”—an act of imagining our future so we have a chance to create it. She’s coming to Seattle to talk about her newest book, Lessons in Magic and Disaster, a novel about witchcraft, academia, queer joy, and the magic of the mundane. If you don’t want to take it from me, take it from Janelle Monaé, who said that “Anders writes the kind of stories that break your heart and expand your mind simultaneously… I am a proud fan.” (Third Place Books Lake Fo

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