About the Author
Gail Scott
Gail Scott is an experimental novelist. The Obituary (New York, Nightboat, 2012; Coach House, 2010), a ghost story set in a Montreal triplex, was a 2011 finalist for Le Grand Prix du Livre de la Ville de Montreal. Other novels include My Paris (Dalkey Archive), about a sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin in late 20th century Paris, Main Brides and Heroine. Spare Parts Plus 2 is a collection of stories and manifestoes. Essays are collected in Spaces Like Stairs and la theorie, un dimanche (translated as Sunday Theory from Belladonna, NY, 2013). Scott's translation of Michael Delisle's Le D'asarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General's award in 2001. Scott co-founded the critical French-language journal Spirale'(Montreal) and is co-editor of the New Narrative anthology: Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Toronto: Coach House, 2004). She is currently completing a memoir based in Lower Manhattan during the early Obama years. Gail currently lives in Montreal.
In her newest book Permanent Revolution (Book*hug Press), prolific feminist writer Gail Scott collects new essays alongside revisited work from her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. Engaging writers who contribute to current queer/feminist avant-garde spaces, this ... Read more
Fred Wah's Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks) is is a lifelong poem project that responds to readings in contemporary writing, art, and ideas from the past forty years. It works through language as a practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens ... Read more
We've got Fifteen Dogs in two Provinces, and the wonderful Sachiko Murakami at Ottawa's Tree Reading Series this week.
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Our bookshelves continue to be filled with dystopian fantasies with titles like Children of Men and The Maze Runner. In some cases, the scenarios seem completely far-fetched (think The Hunger Games) while others don't seem that far off (Big Brother is watching, right George ... Read more
This week in book events: writers bare it all in Montreal at the Live Nude Writers Event; Coach House Press celebrates its fall launch of books with a party in Toronto; Dawn Durmont launches her novel, Rose's Run, at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon; I Found It at the ... Read more
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