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SUMMARY:Seyward Goodhand and Jess Taylor | In Her Voice
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special In Her Voice event! Seyward Goodhand and Jess Taylor will be discussing and reading from their new books\, Even That Wildest Hope and Just Pervs\, respectively. \nA book signing will conclude the event. \nWhen: \nFriday November 15 \n6:30 to 8pm \n(Doors at 6) \nWhere: \nBen McNally Books \n366 Bay Street \nThis is a free event. All are welcome. \nYou can RSVP on Eventbrite. \n\n \nEven That Wildest Hope bursts with vibrant\, otherworldly characters—wax girls and gods-among-men\, artists on opposite sides of a war\, aimless plutocrats and anarchist urchins—who are sometimes wondrous\, often grotesque\, and always driven by passions and yearnings common to us all. Each story is an untamed territory unto itself: where characters are both victims and predators\, the settings are antique and futuristic\, and where our intimacies—with friends\, lovers\, enemies\, and even our food—reveal a deeply human desire for beauty and abjection. Stylistic and primordial\, Even That Wildest Hope is a chaotic and always satisfying fabulist journey in the baroque tradition of Angela Carter\, Carmen Maria Machado\, and Ted Chiang. \nSeyward Goodhand grew up in Hastings County and the North York suburb of Newmarket. Her work has been short-listed for the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award and long-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her award-winning stories have appeared in Found Press\, Riddle Fence\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, subTerrain\, PRISM international\, Grain\, and Dragnet. She is a PhD student in English at the University of Toronto\, and lives Winnipeg where she is a sessional instructor of academic writing. \n\n \nIn Jess Taylor’s sophomore story collection\, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted\, and women are given agency over their desires and bodies. Through these characters\, sex is revealed to be many things at once: gross\, shameful\, exhilarating\, hidden or open—and always complicated. Reminiscent of the works of Maggie Nelson\, Mary Gaitskill and Chris Kraus\, the stories in Just Pervs explore the strange oppression and illumination created by desire\, the bewilderment of adolescence\, and the barriers to intimacy both discovered within and imposed upon ourselves. \nJess Taylor is a Toronto writer and poet. She founded The Emerging Writers Reading Series in 2012. Pauls\, her first collection of stories\, was published by Book*hug Press in 2015. The title story from the collection\, “Paul\,” received the 2013 Gold Fiction National Magazine Award. Jess is currently at work on a novel and continuation of her life poem\, “Never Stop.” She lives in Toronto. \n000000
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LOCATION:Ben McNally Books\, 108 Queen Street East\, Toronto\, ON\, M5C1S6\, Canada
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