Utopia Book Club, No. 3: Everything for Everyone

A book club night with big questions at Local Economy

Tuesday evening in Oakland, Local Economy hosts a thoughtful book club gathering around Everything for Everyone, the speculative oral history by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi.

The conversation runs from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, with Tracy Clark Flory and Sarah Rich leading the room. Expect less lecture, more shared table energy. Local Economy feels like the right setting for it: neighborly, practical, and built for people who want ideas to connect back to daily life.

The book imagines people looking back from the future at the fall of capitalism and the rise of a commune shaped by nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, survivors, and regular people trying to care for each other through collapse. Heavy stuff, yes. But also the kind of story that can make for a good Oakland conversation.

If you like speculative fiction, political imagination, mutual aid talk, or just want a reason to read something with other people in the East Bay, this is worth putting on your calendar. Grab a copy from East Bay Booksellers if you want to read ahead.

Event details are here.

Tracy Clark Flory and Sarah Rich lead a discussion about Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072.
This work of speculative fiction by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi is a look back at the end of capitalism from the perspective of the commune that helped force a new social order in the ashes of systemic collapse.
“Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative,” they write. “Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people’s efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.
A post-apocalyptic book that’s as thrilling as it is depressing for us stuck here in the past. Get your copies from East Bay Booksellers!