Mon, Nov 09
|Reed College Library
PORTLAND OR, FREE - REED ZINE LIBRARY - AFTERNOON - Book Talk and Slide show with James Spooner
Join the Reed Zine Library book Club. Talk about It Starts with Anger with the author James Spooner
Time & Location
Nov 09, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Reed College Library, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA
About the event
Author of It Starts With Anger James Spooner will be visiting REED campus on Nov 9th as our special author visit for Fall's MRC Book Club gathering.
Spooner will be giving a talk on the intersections of punk, race and creative art practice, with time for Q&A.
Reed Librarians picked this coming-of-age graphic memoir that explores race, identity, and rebellion because of how Spooner traces how their reactionary anger evolved into a creative force.
Confronted with systemic racism, microaggressions, and Nazi extremism within punk spaces, Spooner follows the founding of the Afro-Punk movement all the way to their leaving of the space due to all the ways it fell short as a scene that was ironically both liberating and alienating for the Black people drawn to it.
Their zine-inspired work includes photos, illustrations, and cartoon panels with traditional narrative in a unique package that examines the tension between the conflatio…