Paige Lewis in conv with Tom Lin - Canon
Schedule
Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City, IA
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Paige Lewis will read from their new novel, Canon, and will be joined in conversation with Tom Lin. Described by publisher Penguin Random House as "Two unlikely heroes embark on quests to win God’s favor," Canon is praised by bestselling author John Green as "A scorchingly brilliant, wildly funny, and deeply moving epic," while Karen Russell, bestselling author of The Antidote, says: "An unprecedented page-turner . . . I wish I could spend a thousand more pages with the narrator of Canon, whose keenness, kindness, associative brilliance, storytelling authority, and crow-black humor make every line of this utterly singular novel a surprise and a delight . . . Canon filled me with overwhelming joy, joy that such an extraordinary story exists."Paige Lewis is the author of the poetry collection Space Struck and coeditor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance. Lewis teaches at the University of Iowa; Canon is their first novel.
Tom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A graduate of Pomona College, he also holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis. His first novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and his second novel, Babylon, South Dakota, is also debuting this month! He teaches English and creative writing at the University of Iowa.
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