For this special event poet Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow (a dog memoir), has invited Andre Alexis author of 15 Dogs, Nicole J. Georges author of Fetch, and Eugene Lim author of Dear Cyborg to celebrate dog writing — in which dogs and dog relationships (with humans and with each other) serve as subject matter and as shifters of genre — whether that genre is dog fiction, dog memoir, dog graphic novel — alongside and interspersed with the companion genre of speculative fiction in which there is no dog at all. The four writers will read from their work and have a free-ranging conversation about dog writing, fiction, truth and the fantastic.
Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, art journalist and author of 20 books most recently Afterglow (a dog memoir) from Grove/Atlantic. Eileen is a former Artistic Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project. They have published poems and essays in Harpers, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Frieze, Art Forum, Personal Injury, Out There, and The New York Times.
André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. He is the recipient of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize. His novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and in 2017 won Canada Reads. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include The Hidden Keys (nominated for the Trillium Book Award), Pastoral (nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and Lambton, Kent and Other Vistas: A Play.
Nicole J. Georges is a writer, illustrator, podcaster, and professor. Her Lambda Award-winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called “engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant” by Rachel Maddow, and was an Official Selection at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Nicole does a weekly queer feminist art podcast called Sagittarian Matters, and is currently on a dog-themed book tour in support of her new graphic memoir, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home.
Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008), The Strangers (Black Square Editions, 2013), and Dear Cyborgs (FSG Originals, 2017).
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