# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Chat: The Best of Brevity
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 20 Jan, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Book Chat meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 12:00 pm in the library meeting room. 

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction edited by Zoe Bossier: Literary Nonfiction. Flash Nonfiction. Essays. Memoir. Hybrid. How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal readers regularly return to for insightful essays from skilled writers at every stage of their careers. Featuring examples of nonfiction forms such as memoir, narrative, lyric, braided, hermit crab, and hybrid, THE BEST OF BREVITY brings you 84 of the best-loved and most memorable reader favorites, collected in print for the first time. Compressed to their essence, these essays glint with drama, grief, love, and anger, as well as innumerable other lived intensities, resulting in an anthology that is as varied as it is unforgettable, leaving the reader transformed.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/clear-lake/book-chat-the-best-of-brevity/200029189338428
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, meetups, theatre, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Clear Lake
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 200 N 4th St, Clear Lake, IA, United States, Iowa 50428
- **lat**: 43.13848
- **long**: -93.3827
- **full address**: 200 N 4th St, Clear Lake, IA, United States, Iowa 50428

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Chat: The Best of Brevity being held?
  - **A:** Book Chat: The Best of Brevity takes place on Tue, 20 Jan, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Tue, 20 Jan, 2026 at 12:00 pm at 200 N 4th St, Clear Lake, IA, United States, Iowa 50428.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Chat: The Best of Brevity?
  - **A:** Book Chat: The Best of Brevity is organized by Clear Lake Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Book Chat: The Best of Brevity is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Clear Lake, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Book Chat: The Best of Brevity sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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