A. Kendra Greene
April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome A. Kendra Greene for a free, in-store event on Thursday April 24 to celebrate her new book, No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays on Curiosity. This event will take place in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer Street in the Tulsa Arts District.
No Less Strange or Wonderful doesn’t so much live up to its title as explode out of it. What the amazing A. Kendra Greene makes of the world, what she makes with the world, is unfailingly wondrous and revelatory, whether her subject is the Santa Barbara Zoo giraffe, balloon-twisting royalty, the dog that became a speck, Ebenezer Scrooge, or the manifold metaphor of Senator Ted Cruz as a sentient bag of wasps. Prepare yourself to be dazzled by this most original of writers.
–Ben Fountain, author of Devil Makes Three
Exploding sharks, trees riding bicycles, a Hollywood-esque balloon dress, a giant sloth in costume, a stolen woodpecker, and a sentient bag of wasps–and remember: this is nonfiction.
No Less Strange or Wonderful will be published by Tin House on March 4, 2025 and available for sale at Magic City Books. You can purchase a copy online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/no-less-strange-or-wonderful/3138.
About No Less Strange or Wonderful
Celebrated author and artist A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful is a brilliant and generous meditation–on the complex wonder of being alive, on how to pay attention to even the tiniest (sometimes strangest) details that glitter with insight, whimsy, and deep humanity, if only we’d really look.
In twenty-six sparkling essays, illuminated through both text and image, Greene is trying to make sense–of anything, really–but especially the things that matter most in life: love, connection, death, grief, the universe, meaning, nothingness, and everythingness. Through a series of encounters with strangers, children, and animals, the wild merges with the domestic; the everyday meets the sublime. Each essay returns readers to our smallest moments and our largest ones in a book that makes us realize–through its exuberant language, its playful curation, and its delightful associative leapfrogging–that they are, in fact, one in the same.
A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. Her work has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dobie Paisano, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard.
