Indie Press Book Club: We Live Here Now
Schedule
Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
602 Main Street, 81101 | Alamosa, CO
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The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is happy to feature Melville House Books for November and December!On January 7th at 6pm we'll discuss We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose.
From their website: “Melville House is an independent publisher founded in 2001 in order to publish Poetry After 9/11. The book, an anthology of poems written by New York poets, was inspired by poems sent to the book blog, MobyLives, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
The book was widely successful, and Melville House soon expanded its list to include books of literary fiction, political and activist nonfiction, cookbooks and books on food, and a classics line called The Art of the Novella. The company has published two Nobel Prize winners — Imre Kertész and Heinrich Böll — and numerous New York Times bestsellers. It particularly prides itself on the diversity of its list, and on the publication of debut authors.
Melville House UK was founded in 2011.”
Be sure to explore the various collections they have and browse our selection of their books over the next two months. We had a really difficult time choosing only a few!
Our book club pick: We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose.
Join us on January 7th at 6pm to discuss this novel, described as “DeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce.”
Synopsis: When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal.
Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, We Live Here Now ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.
The book is available in store now, and is 10% through January 7th!
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