One Book, One ND Event featuring author Taylor Brorby

FREE ONLINE EVENT with Author Taylor Brorby and Moderator Tayo Basquiat

September 25th, 4:00 - 5:00pm CDT

Author Taylor Brorby

Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil, Crude, Coming Alive, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. He is the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the University of Utah.

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land 

In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.

Moderator Tayo Basquiat

Tayo Basquiat writes to pay attention and teaches to pay the bills. He and a passel of creatures dwell off-grid in the high desert of New Mexico.

One Book, One ND events are sponsored by the Paris Family Foundation and Prairie Public 

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