Following on from the global phenomenon, Ducks Newburyport, award-winning author Lucy Ellmann jauntily tackles the obstinacy, incorrigibility and recalcitrance of things in her collection of essays, Things are Against Us. Join us for an entertaining conversation, led by interviewer Jessica Johnson, editor-in-chief of The Walrus, on everything from the annoyance of male supremacy to the nobility of buttons, and how she stitched together so many seemingly disparate ideas into such a cohesive, satirical collection.

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