The event will feature a wide-ranging conversation exploring writing styles that exist at the margins of fiction, memoir, and art—an approach that critic Craig Owens describes as a form of prose not exclusively ‘about’ art but instead existing ‘alongside’ it.
Organised in collaboration with Peninsula Press.
Emily LaBarge is a Canadian writer based in London. Her first book, Dog Days, is published by Peninsula Press in 2025.
Michael Bracewell’s most recent books include Souvenir: London 1979 – 1986 and a novel, Unfinished Business.
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany, and lives in New York with bass player David Hofstra.
