Keynote
A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong
There are two upcoming fundraising events in celebration of Graywolf's 50th Anniversary... Literary Gala in Minneapolis on September 19 and Literary Salon in San Francisco on October 23.
“Tse’s prose curls around Q like a vine, dropping him in landscapes that are equal parts Bosch and Freud, lush and deranged. Imagine an after-hours cut of Disney’s ‘Fantasia’; Alexander Portnoy on acid; a Losing Your Virginity theme park brought to you by Mephistopheles. . . . His vision of freedom remains private and acquisitive, whereas Tse suggests that real freedom—political, imaginative, and erotic—does not subjugate others; real freedom is democratic, a public and collective project.”—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker