# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Club: American Fiction
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 12 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 am (+10:00)
- **Event Description**: Read the book. Watch the film. Join the conversation.

Join us at the NFSA in Acton for a unique monthly book club experience, in collaboration with ABC Radio Canberra.

Explore how culturally significant books have been adapted and reimagined as films.

Continue the conversation with a lively post-screening discussion. Compare the book and the film with book-loving ABC Radio Canberra hosts, Alice Matthews and Rhian Williams.

Spend your Sunday at the NFSA and meet your fellow book club members. Enjoy lunch, coffee or a sweet treat prior to the screening, available for purchase from Dom’s Deli and Bar.

ABOUT THE FILM:
American Fiction follows Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a frustrated Black novelist who is fed up with the publishing industry’s stereotypes. Monk writes a deliberately clichéd ‘Black’ novel as a joke, only to see it become a runaway success that forces him to confront questions of identity, authenticity, and exploitation.

American Fiction blends sharp comedy with personal drama, following a man caught between artistic integrity and public appetite. The film focuses on character rather than argument and examines how culture shapes and distorts creative voices.

‘A bracing, intelligent satire that never forgets the human cost beneath the joke.’- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

MA15+ | 117min | 2023 | DCP | USA | D: Cord Jefferson
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/canberra/book-club-american-fiction/200029874410708
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, art, performances, theatre, literary-art, comedy
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://tickets.nfsa.gov.au/events/book-club-american-fiction?utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_campaign=canberra-events&utm_term=bookclub

## Event venue details

- **city**: Canberra
- **state**: CT
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Mccoy Cct , Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2601
- **lat**: -35.28295
- **long**: 149.12231
- **full address**: Mccoy Cct , Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2601

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: NFSA Canberra (https://allevents.in/org/nfsa-canberra/23800753)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 12 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 am (+10:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mccoy Cct , Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2601
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** NFSA Canberra
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, art, performances, theatre, literary-art, comedy
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Book Club: American Fiction ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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