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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupAlternate Mondays, next on June 15, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more
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Porn, Gambling, and the American Psyche with Dennis Broe
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingNovelist and film critic Dennis Broe takes a critical look at the pornography and gambling industries - the new bread and circuses, only without the bread. With the American empire ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction Politically – Midterms Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupNext on August 10, 5-6:30 pm ET Reading Science Fiction Politically, Midterms edition explores climate crisis, artificial intelligence in politics, a reawakened Klan, and more by way of four recent novels and selected short stories. Have you noticed that, as contemporary politics veers into the fantastical, more writers have embraced the fantastical, speculative, visionary, horror ... Read more
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Monthly Literature Group: ‘Tijuana Straits’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP Literature Group's new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our August selection is 'Tijuana Straits' by Kem Nunn, a noir fiction set along the US-Mexico border.
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