1.5 hours
Strand Book Store
Starting at USD 14
Fri, 18 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (GMT-04:00)
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, New York, United States
Join us for an in-person event with writer, artist, and speaker Mari Andrew for a discussion of her new book How to Be a Living Thing. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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ACCESSIBILITY:
Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.
ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at ZXZlbnRzIHwgc3RyYW5kYm9va3MgISBjb20= by July 4 to request.
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A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans
A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist…
In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari Andrew reflects on the ways animals mirror, challenge, and deepen our experiences as living creatures in the world. Through her personal stories and explorations into the inner world of other creatures, Mari illuminates the opportunities and wonders of being a living thing. Highly-sensitive horses, overly-cautious donkeys, and silly social rats are just a few of the animal teachers who offer us glimpses of the glories and shortcomings of humanity.
Heartwarming, funny, and insightful, How to Be a Living Thing reminds us that we are perfectly imperfect beings, capable of profound connection with each other and with all other species of the remarkable natural world that surrounds us.
Photo credit: Christine Han Photography
Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, and speaker based in New York City. She is the author of Am I There Yet? and My Inner Sky and writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on Substack.
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Tickets for Mari Andrew: How to Be a Living Thing can be booked here.
Ticket type | Ticket price |
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General Admission+copy of HOW TO BE A LIVING THING | 36 USD |
General Admission | 14 USD |
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