Word Up welcomes professor Elizabeth F. S. Roberts to discuss her new book In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World, a transformative way of understanding addiction--and an invitation to find connection in the pleasures of life we know are bad for us. In conversation with Roberts will be authors Alissa Quart (Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America) from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Maia Szalavitz (Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction).
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside.
Word Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th St.