Montréal Book Launch of Play by Jess Taylor & A Horse at the Window by Spencer Gordon
Le jeudi 13 juin 2024, à 18h00.
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Librairie féministe L'Euguélionne, 1426 Beaudry (métro Beaudry)
Book*hug Press, House of Anansi, and L'Euguélionne, librairie féministe present the Montréal launch of Play by Jess Taylor & A Horse at the Window by Spencer Gordon. With guest readers Brooke Lockyer, author of Burr, and Kasia Juno Van Shaik, author of We Have Never Lived on Earth.
Thursday, June 13, 2024
6:00-8:00 pm ET
L'Euguélionne, librairie féministe, 1426 rue Beaudry, Montréal, QC
Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, the author will be signing!
6:00-8:00 pm ET
L'Euguélionne, librairie féministe, 1426 rue Beaudry, Montréal, QC
Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, the author will be signing!
Praise for Play:
“Jess Taylor’s Play is at once haunted and haunting, a frightening and ultimately compassionate story of the painful and winding path one person takes in the lurch toward healing. It’s a novel full of light and heart even in its darkest moments: a beautiful, compelling debut.” —Liz Harmer, author of Strange Loops
“Jess Taylor’s Play is at once haunted and haunting, a frightening and ultimately compassionate story of the painful and winding path one person takes in the lurch toward healing. It’s a novel full of light and heart even in its darkest moments: a beautiful, compelling debut.” —Liz Harmer, author of Strange Loops
“In Play, Jess Taylor has created a uniquely gentle sort of dread, weaving a story that is compelling and compassionate, and burning with profoundly moving insight about trauma, the power of art, and our deep need for connection.” —Jessica Westhead, author of Avalanche
Praise for A Horse at the Window:
“Its poetics fanned by tutelary spirits, A Horse at the Window spans the burning issues of a world torn between the tangible and the digital. Okay, so it might set your head on fire. But that’s just as well.” —S. D. Chrostowska, author of A Cage for Every Child
“Its poetics fanned by tutelary spirits, A Horse at the Window spans the burning issues of a world torn between the tangible and the digital. Okay, so it might set your head on fire. But that’s just as well.” —S. D. Chrostowska, author of A Cage for Every Child
“A Horse at the Window is a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for our fractured, pixelated 21st century. With maximum velocity, existential wit, and dazzling imagery, Spencer Gordon spins a zoetrope of the Anthropocene that uncannily helps make sense of being alive today, yesterday, and tomorrow while claiming there is no point.” —Zsuzsi Gartner, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Better Living through Plastic Explosives
Bios:
JESS TAYLOR is a Tkaronto (Toronto) writer and poet. Her second collection, Just Pervs, was released by Book*hug in Canada in September 2019. Recently, Just Pervs was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction. A short story from that collection, "Two Sex Addicts Fall in Love", was long-listed for The Journey Prize and included in The Journey Prize Anthology 30. The title story from her first collection, Pauls (BookThug, 2015), "Paul," received the 2013 Gold Fiction National Magazine Award. Jess believes that collaboration and helping other writers is an important part of her writing practice. Play is her first novel.
JESS TAYLOR is a Tkaronto (Toronto) writer and poet. Her second collection, Just Pervs, was released by Book*hug in Canada in September 2019. Recently, Just Pervs was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction. A short story from that collection, "Two Sex Addicts Fall in Love", was long-listed for The Journey Prize and included in The Journey Prize Anthology 30. The title story from her first collection, Pauls (BookThug, 2015), "Paul," received the 2013 Gold Fiction National Magazine Award. Jess believes that collaboration and helping other writers is an important part of her writing practice. Play is her first novel.
SPENCER GORDON is the author of three books: a collection of dramatic monologues, A Horse at the Window (House of Anansi Press, June 2024), the poetry collection Cruise Missile Liberals (Nightwood Editions, 2017), and the short story collection Cosmo (Coach House Books, 2012). He was co-founder and was senior editor of The Puritan (now Ex-Puritan) for over ten years. He's taught writing across Toronto at Humber College, OCAD University, the University of Toronto and George Brown College. Now living in Bowmanville, Ontario (the traditional and treaty territory of the Mississaugas and Chippewas of the Anishinabeg, known today as the Williams Treaties First Nations), he works as a Principal Associate at Blueprint, a non-profit research organization dedicated to improving the social and economic well-being of Canadians by helping solve complex public policy challenges. Read more at his website, www.spencer-gordon.com, or follow him on Twitter/X @spencergordon.
BROOKE LOCKYER is the author of Burr, published last year by Nightwood Editions and praised as "a charming and appealingly atmospheric debut novel" by the Toronto Star. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Born in Southwestern Ontario, she's lived in rural Japan, New York City, Bristol and the Mojave Desert. Lockyer currently resides with her family in Toronto.
KASIA VAN SCHAIK is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth, which was nominated for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Concordia University First Book Prize, and the ReLit Prize for short fiction. Her writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, CBC Books, Maisonneuve Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Best Canadian Poetry, Electric Literature, The Rumpus and more. Her next book, Women Among Monuments, explores 20th century histories of female genius, asking what, beyond a room of one’s own, are the necessary conditions for artmaking.
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