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Join us on Thursday, September 4 at 6:30 pm for a drop-in reading group celebrating the work of the writer Clarice Lispector. For our first session, we will be discussing THE HOUR OF THE STAR (translated from Portuguese by Benjamin Moser) 🤍
This event will be facilitated by writer, editor, and friend of Type Junction, @rebeccamangra: “I first discovered Clarice Lispector as a teenager. Her excerpts on Tumblr constantly pulled me into a trance; I felt like she was handpicking the rumblings of my heart. THE HOUR OF THE STAR is a beautiful and complicated novella. Lispector is able to articulate the things in life most of us can only feel. Join me in digging through the muck of ourselves, so we can see each other without flinching.”
We would love to see you — as always, this event is free to attend + all are welcome (no registration required) ❣️Copies are available to purchase online at
typebooks.ca or in-store.
REVOLUTIONS by Hajer Mirwali 〰️ Join us on Sunday, August 10, for a poetry reading group and author Q&A. For the first half of the event, we will be collectively reading and discussing selections from Mirwali’s debut poetry collection, followed by a discussion with the author moderated by Rebecca Mangra // 6:30 PM (this event is free to attend but registration is required due to limited capacity 🔗 link in bio to reserve your spot!) ❤️🔥
In conversation with the work of Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, REVOLUTIONS is an exploration of how young Arab women make and unmake their identities while living under constant surveillance. Drawing from other artists such as Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, REVOLUTIONS subverts the gaze and locates sites of pleasure, possibility, and agency across its pages and beyond.
Whether you love them, hate them, or want to be them, the “literary it girl” has captured hearts as well as scorn. With no concrete definition, the term represents a writer, usually a woman, whose public persona is as luxurious, charismatic, and witty as the characters she creates on the page. With large social media follower counts and personal style that Cher Horowitz would envy, these writers have become everyone’s favourite literary villain. But is the criticism duly deserved?
Many of these women have achieved major commercial and critical success, yet their works are often dismissed as unimportant. Is this a case of misogyny? Are these writers simply conforming to patriarchal beauty ideals in order to sell their books? If literary it girls are the antithesis of what writers should be emulating, a “bad” kind of writer, then what is the “good” kind? In this workshop and reading group, we’ll dive into the controversy and critique the writer-as-performer. In the age of social media and marketing, is there a way to sell your book without performing some aspect of the self? How is this performance different from the performance of living?
In addition to the discussion, we’ll be close-reading a scene from the work of one such-labelled literary it girl: Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados. We’ll analyze the literary tools Granados employs and examine what the text has to say about the world. At the end, we’ll be doing a fun exercise to create our own scenes because we can all be literary it girls if we want to be!
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Virtual Launch of Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor: MAY 18 @ 7PM EST
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Rebecca Mangra 