BOOK LAUNCH: Change the Subject by Claire Hopple, with Emma Ensley
In-store book launch and author conversation celebrating local novelist Claire Hopple’s Change the Subject, a near-future story about “proxying” workers wearing camera hats and mics for live-streamed gigs. Q&A-style discussion with local writer Emma Ensley in an intimate bookstore cafe setting.
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