Fall for the Book Minifest: The Wonder of Curiosity

Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:30 PM EST
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room

Artist and author A. Kendra Greene guides readers to explore the wonder in the mundane and engage with the unique and fascinating parts of this world in No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity. In twenty-six illustrated essays, Greene embraces joy and the sublime in fantastical, yet real tales of exploding sharks, sentient bags of wasps, trees riding bicycles, and more. Author Amy Leach says, “I am so taken with A. Kendra Greene’s takenness with things—funny-looking dogs, delighted devils, monotremes, the toes of the Universe, beautiful frozen toilet water. Her intoxicating book does the opposite of diminishing the world, and it took me to new places. Like a train that spurns conventional stations, conventional tracks, this book plunges into the wild, trackless unknown.”