Toronto launch of Middlemen by Maria Cichosz at Queen Books
About this Event
Join Us for the Toronto Launch of Middlemen by Maria Cichosz!
The follow up to Maria's acclaimed novel, Cam & Beau, Middlemen is set to release with NoN Publishing fall 2026! Join us on October 22 at 6:30 pm to celebrate the launch of this highly anticipated read. The event will be hosted by Kate Maddalena (Disgustatory! A Gothic Rhetoric of Consumption).
About Middlemen:
Toronto, mid-2010s: the economy is tanking, the opioid crisis is about to explode, and Beau Larky is drifting through the city in a drug-fuelled haze, photographing extravagant weddings to bankroll his habit. When he learns that Cam, his former roommate and one-time lover—now a celebrity academic on the West Coast—has suffered a breakdown, Beau is seized by an unexpected need to see him after years of silence. His impulsive trip to California ignites the resentment of Stacey, the professor’s soon-to-be wife, and Cliff, their former drug dealer turned real-estate shark, now too busy riding the housing boom to care about anything but the market.To “middle” is to sell drugs to support one’s own habit, but also to linger, to stall, to refuse to decide.
Middlemen is a dark, unflinching story about class, distance, addiction, and the blurry line between human and financial relationships. Above all, it is a break-up letter to Toronto, the novel’s meanest character.
Maria Cichosz is a writer, critical drug studies scholar, and professor of literature and creative writing at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. Their work has appeared in Critique, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Literary Review of Canada, American Literature, and on the CBC Literary Awards shortlist, among other places. She is the author of two novels, Cam & Beau (2020) and Middlemen (2026), as well as On Drugs, a forthcoming entry in Biblioasis’s Field Notes series.
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