A genre-bending work that swoops from fiction into nonfiction (or vice versa, depending on how a reader picks up the book), Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book is a dizzying, stinging, and often tender exploration on how the self is built and eroded in relation to others. Half taut novella, half peripatetic documentation of a relationship’s end, the book is at once formally disorienting and sure-footed, intimate and beguiling.
Join Lacey for a reading and conversation with Suzannah Showler about how stories shift as they’re told and retold, and how to write about and beyond the self.
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About the Speakers
Catherine Lacey is author of The Möbius Book, a hybrid work of fiction and memoir, as well as four novels Biography of X, Pew, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and The Answers, and the story collection Certain American States. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from The Cullman Center, the Young Lions Fiction Award, an O. Henry, and the Brooklyn Public Library Book Award. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages including Japanese, Persian, and Catalan. She lives in México with her husband and their dog, el Cheskie. https://www.catherinelacey.com/
Suzannah Showler is the author of two collections of poetry (Thing Is and Failure to Thrive), a book of cultural criticism (Most Dramatic Ever), and a novel (Quality Time). Her work has been recognized by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, and the National Magazine Awards, among other places. She lives in East Van with her family. www.suzannahshowler.com
Access
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