Creativity Book Club at Fable

Mon Jan 27 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC+00:00

Fable - Cafe, Coffee, English Books | Lisboa

Fable Cafe + English Bookstore
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Creativity Book Club at Fable
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Our Creativity Book Club is a monthly event at Fable Bookshop + Cafe to chat about art and creative topics in community
About this Event

January's Creativity Book Club Pick:



Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

​Join us for a stimulating conversation with your lovely book club host, Rafa, and other book lovers. Enjoy a bite to eat or a natural wine, stay for the conversation and new friendships!


More info about this month's book:

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.
In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss?

She explores the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.


We have extra stock of this book available to purchase at Fable starting on January 8th. Come in soon to ensure you're able to grab a copy in case we sell out.



Location of the event:

Fable Bookshop Cafe, Rua dos Prazeres 10A, Lisbon, 1200-820



About the Venue: Fable

Fable is an English bookshop, cafe, and creative events space in Lisbon. We offer wholesome meals, specialty coffee, natural wine, and a thoughtfully curated selection of both fiction and non-fiction books. We also host a medley of events and workshops focused on creativity, wellness, book and music launch parties, and inclusive community gatherings.



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Fable - Cafe, Coffee, English Books, 10A Rua dos Prazeres, Lisboa, Portugal

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