BAD HOUSES - John Elizabeth Stintzi

Name: BAD HOUSES - John Elizabeth Stintzi
Start: 2024-10-23T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-23T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 315 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto,M6R 2M6,CA

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

315 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto,M6R 2M6,CA | Toronto, ON

Join us for the Toronto launch of BAD HOUSES (Arsenal Pulp) by John Elizabeth Stintzi! In conversation with Michael DeForge.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
John Elizabeth Stintzi is the award winning author of the novels My Volcano and Vanishing Monuments , the poetry collection Junebat , and the short story collection Bad Houses . Their work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Malahat Review, Kenyon Review, and Best Canadian Poetry. They are at work illustrating their first graphic novel: Automaton Deactivation Bureau .
ABOUT BAD HOUSES:
From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales.
In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses , a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.
Present throughout Bad Houses is a deep and abiding sense of humanity sprinkled with a dash of alienation, guilt, and instability. Filtered through a fabulist lens, these stories contemplate the struggles of modern existence. Each character lives their own haunted life, trying to navigate the path from bad houses to good homes.
Featuring Stintzi's own expressive ink illustrations, Bad Houses is a book that feels like it was penned by a trans Alice Munro mixed with a bubblier Franz Kafka. Enter if you dare.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Michael DeForge lives in Toronto, Ontario. He worked as a designer on Adventure Time for six seasons. His illustrations have been featured in Jacobin, The New York Times, The Believer, The LA Times, and The Walrus.
His published books include Ant Colony, Dressing, Big Kids, Brat, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, Stunt, Familiar Face, Leaving Richard’s Valley, Heaven No Hell and Birds of Maine . He's written for SSENSE and Lux Magazine.