Aug 17 | Cordelia Strube at Fiction Funnies at Drawn & Quarterly

On August, three of Montreal's finest fiction writers read and discuss comedy in their writing at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore.

Montrealer Katrina Best's first book of short stories, Bird Eat Bird, recently won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. It's a funny, smart, offbeat and insightful collection that explores themes that are equally parts poignant and hilarious. Cordelia Strube, author of the Giller longlisted Lemon, is a Montreal native now living in Toronto. Her novel features a teenager trying to survive high school with three (sort of) mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protege, one tree-hugging stepbrother and a 60% average. And Teri Vlassopoulos is the author of the short fiction collection Bats or Swallows, shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, stories told with grace, wit and a bold and original eye for comedic detail.

Ian Orti (The Olive and the Dawn) will host the evening. The three authors will read from their latest work and follow up the short readings with a Q&A about humour, their writing and where the two intersect. Can serious subject matter be told using comedy? Is humour too often used as a crutch in fiction?

Fiction Funnies at Drawn & Quarterly
featuring Katrina Best, Cordelia Strube and Teri Vlassopoulos
hosted by Ian Orti
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Drawn & Quarterly Store, 211 Bernard
Montreal, QC
Doors at 7 p.m.
Free