July Book Club Wicked with Tyler Mitchell
Our July book club is here! Wicked by Gregory McGuire will be hosted by our friend Tyler Mitchell and will be held on Thursday, July 23rd, from 5:30-7:30 pm. The coffee bar will be available for you as well as after-hours shopping.
Books are available for purchase in store now.
Tyler selected Wicked for book club in celebration of The Project’s 40th anniversary. There is a long history of shared connection between The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland, and the LGBTQ+ community. In fact, the term “friend of Dorothy” was once used by queer people as coded language to help identify each other. Plus, he was looking for another reason to listen to the Wicked soundtrack!
This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire’s breathtaking New York Times "bestseller Wicked "views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked" offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn’t nearly as Wicked "as we imagined."
About Tyler: Tyler is the Development Director at The Project of the Quad Cities, an organization dedicated to caring for people living with HIV and LGBTQ+ folks. As a proud member of the queer community, Tyler hopes to make a difference through his work at The Project. He also serves on the Foundation board for the Davenport Public Library and as chair of the WVIK/NPR community advisory board. During his free time, Tyler enjoys hanging out with his cats, Basil & Mothman, listening to audiobooks, and playing video games. He’s also an avid D&D fan!
_____
- Registration for book club is now a donation-based pay-what-you-can each month that benefits a local non-profit - July’s book club will benefit The Project of the Quad Cities! Find out more about them at open_in_newtpqc.org
- Receive 10% off the book club book with registration - use code BOOKCLUB or mention that you’ve joined the book club at checkout in person!
- The coffee bar will be available for you as well as after-hours shopping.
- Don’t want the physical copy of the book? Consider using open_in_newlibro.fm/atlascollectiveqc for audiobooks or open_in_newhttps://bookshop.org/shop/atlascollectiveqc for e-books or direct to home shipping.