Deep Dish Reading October 1, 2026 6pm

after-words welcomes back the Speculative Literature Foundation and their Deep Dish Readings.

These feature established authors and introduce emerging writers with rapid-fire.

The Speculative Literature Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated

to promoting literary quality in speculative fiction. They encourage promising

new writers, assist established writers, facilitate the work of quality magazines and

small presses in the genre, and work to promote a greater public appreciation of speculative fiction.

Their mission is to promote literary quality in speculative fiction through our grants,

programming, and more! Speculative fiction is an umbrella term for any literature

with a speculative or fantastical element, anything that isn’t strictly realist,

such as science fiction, fantasy, folklore, fairy tales, ghost stories, and more.

Banned Books Club

During Banned Books Week this year we will be discussing the

8th most banned and challenged book of 2025,

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

In Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is

told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders

his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange

is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.

Banned Books Week Promotions!

Every year we like to reward readers and have fun giveaways.

Spend $30 and you get to choose either a FREE copy of the constitution or a Banned Books Button

Spend $40 you get a FREE Right to Read mini tote

Spend $50 and you get all three FREE

We hope you will join us in the fight against censorship.

*While Supplies Last*