The Newark Public Library LGBTQ+ Resource Center presents a monthly book discussion group, where all backgrounds and identities are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Join us at the Main Library, LGBTQ+ Resource Center, September 20th from 6PM - 8PM for a group discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson. 

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color

. . . 

Since it's first publication in 2009 to present day, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human—via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue. 

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue, while folding in, and responding to, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein, Sei Shonagon, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. Bluets confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.

Registration is required and linked below. Free copies of the book are available and will be provided upon request*.

*Please note that there aren't any more free copies available at this time.