Join us for a release event with notable writer Ed Walter, discussing his debut fiction book LIVES OF EMINENT SORCERERS.About this Event
Moderating this discussion is contributing editor at e-flux journal Elvia Wilk. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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An ensorcelling collection of fantastical stories within an encyclopedia frame narrative.
Lives of Eminent Sorcerers: And Other Readings is an ensorcelling collection of literary ephemera that encompasses the history of ideas of an alternate world in the tradition of Ursula K. LeGuin and Clark Ashton Smith. Drawing from history, religion, philosophy, and myth, Ed Halter assembles an encyclopedia story cycle that places the reader as a participant of voyages across endless oceans and pilgrimages to lost temples, as well as a witness to incantatory miracles and hidden rituals.
Ed Halter is the author of Lives of Eminent Sorcerers: And Other Readings. He is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for cinema in Brooklyn, and teaches at Bard College. For over twenty years, his criticism has appeared in Artforum, 4Columns, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Lives of Eminent Sorcerers is his first book of fiction.
Photo credit: Nina Subin
Elvia Wilk is the author of the novels Oval and A Diagnosis and the essay collection Death by Landscape. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have been published in places including Bookforum, Frieze, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Nation, WIRED, n+1, Granta, Conjunctions, BOMB, 4Columns, The Paris Review, and e-flux journal, where she is a contributing editor.
Event venue
Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
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