Weller Book Works, Salt Lake City, Utah, is launching an adult book fair, called Books After Dark, that will take place this coming Sunday, November 2, from 6-9 p.m., after regular store hours. Adults 21 and older are invited. The spooky emphasis will be on banned books. As the store wrote, "Customers can come sip and shop in ambient atmosphere while we discuss the tea surrounding the current sociopolitical climate. Like cultured adults."
At the event, bartenders will serve signature themed cocktails. There will also be local vendors, artists/creatives, a Drag Story Hour and moderated book panel with local publishers, literary icons, and radical educators.
Guests and panelists will include Rebekah Cummings, director of digital matters at the University of Utah Marriott Library and co-director for the Summer Institute Humanities Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence; Daniel Neville-Rehbehn, chief service & impact officer at the Salt Lake City Public Library; Tara Lipsyncki, founder and executive director of the United Drag Alliance and Drag Story Hour's Intermountain West chapter; Madazon Can-Can, M.Ed., "a local performer, educator, activist, clown, and all around weirdo"; Syvlie Luna Thorn, a local artisan specializing in occult wares; and Out of the Shadows Theater Company, organized by Jen Ogle and performed by the Latter Day Transvestites, Salt Lake City's premier shadow cast theater troupe.