Open Word: Larissa Lai

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Saturday, November 17th, 2018
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Join us for Open Word: Readings and Ideas with Larissa Lai to celebrate the release of her new dystopian novel, The Tiger Flu.

Larissa Lai has authored two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl; two poetry collections, sybil unrest (with Rita Wong) and Automaton Biographies; and a critical book, Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s. She was assistant professor in Canadian Literature at UBC from 2007–2014. In 2014, she returned to the University of Calgary to take up a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing.

Larissa will read from The Tiger Flu at 7:30, then join in conversation with scholar and writer Claire Huot. Claire Huot is the author of two academic books on contemporary Chinese culture, and of two novels, both with the same bilingual (Chinese-English) female detective. With Robert Majzels she created the experimental translation of Chinese poetry that was published as “85”.

The event is free / by donation. Doors open at 7:00. There will be books for sale by cash/credit, and a cash bar—come prepared!

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