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The UCSB Reads 2025 selection, The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, is a New York Timesbestselling essay collection celebrating ordinary wonders and revealing how making space for joy unites us
SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures and the UCSB Librarypresent UCSB Reads Author Event Ross Gay, The Book of Delights
- Thu, May 8 | 7:30 p.m. | UCSB Campbell Hall
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- Written daily over one tumultuous year, Gay’s The Book of Delights celebrates ordinary wonders through humorous, poetic and philosophical essays covering a wide range of topics
- Gay reveals how staking out a space for joy brings us closer together
- Ross Gay’s bestselling books have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2015, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2016 and the PEN/Jean Stein Award in 2021
- Copies of The Book of Delights will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books
- FREE (Registration recommended. Very limited availability.)
- Tickets & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or (805) 893-3535
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