Community in Conversation: The Best American Essays 2025 - Meeting 1
Schedule
Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA, United States, California 92508 | Riverside, CA
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So much has been thrown at the world this year, and I think a good way to look at it with a wider brush is to read The Best American Essays 2025, edited by Jia Tolentino. There are 21 essays, and we will split the discussion into three parts: Thursday, February 5th, Thursday, March 5th, and Thursday, April 2nd. I look forward to closely examining, with you, 2025 through the eyes of some of our most brilliant scholars and artists. About The Best American Essays 2025: “The essay has taught me how to live,” writes Jia Tolentino, this year’s Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection do not proselytize, nor do they claim to have all the answers. Instead, they teach with vulnerability, raw truths, and open questions. This volume offers testimonies and personal narratives about war and fear; oblivion and memory; disease, grief, and boredom; nonhuman animals and plants; poverty and hyperabundance; consciousness and solipsism; the loss of literature and the work of art; pretense and respect.
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