Future Histories: Laird Hunt & Linda Spalding

Laird Hunt, Linda Spalding and Alix Hawley

Future Histories: Laird Hunt & Linda Spalding

Laird Hunt, Linda Spalding and Alix Hawley

3:00pm

Monday, October 25, 2021

Award-winning author Laird Hunt will join critically-acclaimed writer and editor Linda Spalding in conversation, to present Hunt’s latest novel, Zorrie. The pair will explore our changing and challenging relationships to history, its facts and its fictions, and ask to whom and how do we tell these stories in our contemporary times? Spanning an entire lifetime, Hunt’s novel follows Zorrie Underwood as life convulses and transforms around her. After a childhood shadowed by immense tragedy and perilous realities, Zorrie drifts west, surviving on odd jobs and sleeping in barns searching for a place in the world.

Interviewer: Alix Hawley

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Award-winning author Laird Hunt will join critically-acclaimed writer and editor Linda Spalding in conversation, to present Hunt’s latest novel, Zorrie. The pair will explore our changing and challenging relationships to history, its facts and its fictions, and ask to whom and how do we tell these stories in our contemporary times? Spanning an entire lifetime, Hunt’s novel follows Zorrie Underwood as life convulses and transforms around her. After a childhood shadowed by immense tragedy and perilous realities, Zorrie drifts west, surviving on odd jobs and sleeping in barns searching for a place in the world.

Interviewer: Alix Hawley

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Featured Authors

Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations from the French. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine and Italy's Bridge prize. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and many others. He teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown University and lives in Providence.

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Linda Spalding
Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, is the author, most recently, of A Reckoning, a novel published by Pantheon in March, 2018. Spalding's novel The Purchase, published by Pantheon in 2013, won the Governor General’s prize in Canada. Spalding’s earlier novels include The Paper Wife (1996) Daughters of Captain Cook (1989) and Mere (2001) as well as the nonfiction books A Dark Place in the Jungle (1998), which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and Who Named the Knife, which was also a television movie.

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Alix Hawley
Alix Hawley studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Oxford University, the University of East Anglia and the University of British Columbia. She published a story collection, The Old Familiar, which was longlisted for the ReLit award, with Thistledown Press in 2008. Several of her stories have won accolades from the CBC, and in 2017 Witching won the CBC Short Story Prize. Her first novel, All True Not a Lie in It, was published by Knopf Canada as its New Face of Fiction pick for 2015, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the BC Book Prize for Fiction.

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3:00pm

Monday, October 25

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