Dead Writers at Flying Books at Neverland
Flying Books
Lee Suksi - lee@flyingbooks.ca - 416532-8552
Join us on Monday, May 27th at Flying Books at Neverland on 371 Queen St. W. for an opportunity to speak with the authors of Dead Writers, out this year from Invisible Press. Drop by for a glass of wine or a cup of tea, and hear from the creators of this unique collaborative project.
Admission is free, but please RSVP.
About the book
In this collaborative fiction project, four writers navigate the protean concept of the “bargain” in novella-length stories. A biographer surveying the career of a “haunted” literary figure, a lovelorn journalist entering into a diabolic covenant, a tourist attempting to stay sober through her holiday travels, and a doctor’s complicity in a colonial scandal: These horror-inflected offerings of existential dread, tainted pasts, and uncertain futures serve as an unbalancing reminder that there is always a high price to pay for the corruption of the soul.
About the Authors
Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, and Kilworthy Tanner. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Catapult, The Comics Journal, Hazlitt, Maclean’s, and elsewhere. He will appear in another quartet of novellas, Now I Shall Leave You to Your Fate, alongside Liz Harmer, Sophie McCreesh, and Fawn Parker, out this fall from ARP.
Michael LaPointe is the author of The Creep (Random House Canada, 2021). He has written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and he was a columnist for The Paris Review.
Cassidy McFadzean is the author of three books of poetry: Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024), Drolleries (McClelland & Stewart, 2019), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and Hacker Packer (M&S, 2015), winner of two Saskatchewan Book Awards and finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her fiction has appeared in carte blanche, Joyland, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, and Prism International.
Naben Ruthnum is a Toronto-based author of fiction and criticism. He is the author of Helpmeet, The Grimmer, and A Hero of Our Time.
