Join OCLW for an evening with scholar and writer Yosef Wosk as we celebrate the launch of his latest book, New Life Joke Shop: Travels and Observations.

New Life Joke Shop is the second volume in Yosef’s autobiographical trilogy. Through essays and vignettes that fuse travel writing, memoir and cultural critique, he offers what he calls “a confectionary, a philosophical variety store, a word emporium of observations on Ageing, Arts, Books, Charity”, and more. Written through a lens he terms psychogeography—“the cosmos becoming conscious of itself through the agency of human awareness”—the collection treats streets, interiors, archives and objects as catalysts for thinking about memory, technology, conflict and care.

Yosef will read from New Life Joke Shop and reflect on its form, themes, and key contentions.

Open to all. Registration recommended (required for online attendance).