Emily LaBarge in conversation with Mark O’Connell
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Join us for a discussion between Emily LaBarge, author of Dog Days, and Mark O’Connell, journalist and author of A Thread of Violence. Blending memoir with essay and cultural criticism, Dog Days poses imaginative questions about the way we tell stories, drawing on works by authors and artists such as Vivian Gornick, Richard Burton, and Sylvia Plath. This promises to be a fascinating conversation about art, narrative structure, the limitations of language, and the way trauma is embodied in writing—a search for the ‘Good Story’.
“The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story”.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Emily LaBarge is always intellectually agile and emotionally capacious.”
– Deborah Levy
“An incandescent book, a landmark in how to bring language to bear on the unspeakable. Beautiful, uncompromising, rigorous and totally original.”
– Olivia Laing
“Emily LaBarge renders trauma as a lived experience, and so Dog Days is not merely a trauma study, of which there are many, but also a unique literary experience. Dog Days is rich in ideas. A fascinating work, unusually conceived and written, disturbing, honest, and profound.”
– Lynne Tillman
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Emily LaBarge is a Canadian writer based in London. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Granta, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among others. Dog Days is her first book.
Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine. He is a regular contributor to The New York review of Books, and was awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
