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An Evening with Daniel Allen Cox & Chandra Mayor

Thursday Aug 20 2015 7:30 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Travel Alcove
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Winnipeg launch of Mouthquake (Arsenal Pulp Press) featuring a guest reading and conversation with Chandra Mayor. Hosted by Bruce Symaka and co-presented by the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

A boy’s speech starts to fracture along with the cement of le Stade olympique. Do they share a fault line? Daniel Allen Cox’s unconventional fourth novel tells the story of a boy with a stutter who grows up and uses sound to remember the past. A coming-of-age tale that telescopes through time like an amnesiac memoir, Mouthquake finds its strange beat in subliminal messages hidden in skipping records, in the stutters of celebrities, and in the wisdom of The Grand Antonio, a suspicious mystic who helps the narrator unlock the secret to his speech. This is a loudly exclaimed book of innuendo, rumours, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory that asks: How do you handle a troubling past event that behaves like a barely audible whisper?

Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the novels Shuck, Krakow Melt (both Lambda Literary Award finalists), Basement of Wolves, Mouthquake, and the novella Tattoo This Madness In. He co-wrote the screenplay for Bruce LaBruce’s 2013 film Gerontophilia. Daniel is a 2015 writer-in-residence at the ZVONA i NARI Library & Literary Retreat in Linjan, Croatia, the first Canadian writer to be invited. He lives in Montreal, where he is vice president of Quebec Writers’ Federation.

Chandra Mayor is a queer Winnipeg novelist and poet. Her books have received numerous awards, including the Carol Shields (Cherry) and a Lambda (All the Pretty Girls). She has been the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Public Library, a poetry editor for Prairie Fire and CV2, a theatre critic for CBC and The Winnipeg Review, a Human Library organizer, a textile artist, and a popular creative writing instructor.

See:

Mouthquake

- Daniel Allen Cox , Sarah Schulman

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A novel about a boy with a stutter, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory.

Montreal, 1979. A boy's speech starts to fracture along with the cement of le Stade olympique. Do they share a fault line? Daniel Allen Cox's unconventional fourth novel tells the story of a boy with a stutter who grows up and uses sound to remember the past. A coming-of-age tale that telescopes through time like an amnesiac memoir, Mouthquake finds its strange beat in subliminal messages hidden in skipping records, in the stutters of celebrities, and in the wisdom of The Grand Antonio, a suspicious mystic who helps the narrator unlock the secret to his speech. This is a loudly exclaimed book of innuendo, rumours, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory that asks: How do you handle a troubling past event that behaves like a barely audible whisper?

Written with a poetic bravado and in a structure that mimics a stutter, the elegiac Mouthquake is speech therapy for the bent: the signal is perverted and the sounds are thrilling.

Includes an afterword by Sarah Schulman, author of Rat Bohemia and The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination.

"Art both tells and transforms life. And it is through the juxtaposition of evocative, surprising language with intellectual awareness and the sharing of open consciousness that this process is conveyed with soul as long as the form emerges from the emotional center of the work. Daniel finds these connections and innovations within himself, partially through commitment, partially through instinct. It's that thing we call talent."
-Sarah Schulman, from the Afterword