Zoe Whittall is the author of 6 books and the editor of one anthology. Her next novel, The Best Kind of People, will be published in spring 2016 with House of Anansi. Born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she has lived in Toronto since 1997, and she works as a journalist, teacher, and TV writer.
About Zoe's most recent book, Holding Still For As Long As Possible:
"What is it like to grow into adulthood with the war on terror as your defining political memory, with SARS and Hurricane Katrina as your backdrop? In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of a generation we've rarely seen in literature -- the twenty-five-year olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Zoe Whittall fulfills the promise of her acclaimed first novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts, with this extraordinary novel set in Toronto's seedy-but-gentrifying Parkdale. Revolving around three interlocking lives, it offers, among other things, a detailed inside look at the work of paramedics, and entertaining celebrity gossip."
- from House of Anansi
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Jacob Wren makes
literature, performances and exhibitions. His books include: Unrehearsed
Beauty, Families Are Formed Through Copulation, Revenge Fantasies of
the Politically Dispossessed and Polyamorous Love Song. As co-artistic
director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART
he has co-created the performances: En français comme en anglais, it's
easy to criticize, Individualism Was A Mistake, The DJ Who Gave Too Much
Information and Every Song I’ve Ever Written. International
collaborations include: a stage adaptation of the Wolfgang Koeppen novel
Der Tod in Rom (Sophiensaele, Berlin), An Anthology of Optimism
(co-created with Pieter De Buysser / Campo, Ghent), Big Brother Where
Art Thou? (a project entirely on Facebook co-created with Lene Berg /
OFFTA) and No Double Life For The Wicked (co-created with Tori Kudo /
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan.) He travels internationally with
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Jacob launched his latest book, Polyamorous Love Song, at the Librairie this year. It has been a bestseller ever since!
Polyamorous Love Song is "a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live. With a diverse palette of vivid characters – from people who wear furry mascot costumes at all times, to a group of 'New Filmmakers' that devises increasingly unexpected sexual scenarios with complete strangers, to a secret society that concocts a virus that only infects those on the political right – Wren's avant-garde Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the 2013 Fence Modern Prize in Prose) will appeal to readers with an interest in the visual arts, theatre, and performance of all types."
- from BookThug
