Science + Literature: Perceiving One Another
Mon, Apr 21
|Oakland Community Space
Featuring Science + Literature–honored authors Ed Yong and Sabrina Imbler


Time & Location
Apr 21, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Oakland Community Space, 1955 Broadway suite b, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
About The Event
Ed Yong’s An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us—a 2025 Science + Literature Selected Title—challenges readers to move beyond our sensory biases to better understand the ways in which creatures, animals, and our fellow humans experience the world. Join Yong for a reading and conversation on the connective possibilities of science writing and of curiosity. Moderated by Sabrina Imbler, 2023 Science + Literature honoree, and author of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures.
Limited free copies of An Immense World will be available at the event, first come, first served. The program will be followed by a book signing. Books will also be available for sale on-site thanks to East Bay Booksellers. FREE
Doors will open at 5:30pm, and the program will begin at 6:00pm PDT.
Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and Litquake.
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