Larissa Lai's Blog
May 20, 2023
Watch the Giller Power Panel on YouTube
On May 17, 2023, The ScotiaBank Giller Prize hosted the Giller Power Panel: The End is Nigh – Apocalyptic Canadian Fiction. Moderated by Omar El Akkad, the panelists included Larissa Lai, Thea Lim, Saleema Nawaz and Waubgeshig Rice. To learn more about Giller Power Panels please visit scotiabankgillerprize.ca.
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April 16, 2023
Lit Pen with Larissa Lai – Victoria Festival of Authors
Hear Larissa on the Victoria Festival of Authors’ podcast, Lit Pen. From the VFA site:
We encourage you to follow Larissa’s writing exercise, Writing Historical Fiction or What I Learned from Writing a Historical Novel, and share your results with us in the Victoria Festival of Authors’ Lit Pen Facebook group.
Lit Pen, a podcast series of readings and workshops by VFA’s alumni authors. Each episode on Lit Pen, you’ll hear about a different element involved in the craft of writing.
The VFA page is here. The direct link to the Spotify podcast is here.
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February 21, 2023
The Tiger Flu: “It’s Better to Hope Than Mope”
A beautiful paper in the Science Fiction Research Association journal by Sababa Monsur, called “It’s Better to Hope than Mope”, about The Tiger Flu and The Year of the Flood.
Read It’s Better to Hope than Mope here.
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February 14, 2023
The Lost Century in Northwest Review
A touching and astute review of The Lost Century by Hilary Sun for Northwest Review.
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November 25, 2022
The Lost Century in The British Columbia Review
A review of The Lost Century by Hanako Masutani in The British Columbia Review. Read it here.
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Augur Magazine Interview with Larissa Lai
On November 26 & 27, 2022, Augur Magazine is hosting their second-ever AugurCon, a virtual celebration of speculative literatures with over 45 authors, poets, editors, and publishing professionals.
On November 24, they interviewed with Larissa, who is a panelist at this year’s AugurCon. Read the interview here.
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November 18, 2022
The Lost Century: Best new Canadian books to give (and receive)
The Lost Century among recommendations by Shelley Boettcher in The National Post. Read it here.
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The Lost Century in The Asian Review of Books
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October 12, 2022
Rachel Lee and Larissa Lai in conversation on the Brooklyn Rail
Larissa Lai speaks with Rachel Lee, cultural studies critic and the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies, in the Brooklyn Rail.
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Le Fruit de la Puanteur, the French translation of Salt Fish Girl, shortlisted for the GG
Le Fruit de la Puanteur (Salt Fish Girl) is shortlisted for a Governor General’s award for the English-to-French translation!
Congratulations and appreciation to translators Sylvie Bérard and Suzanne Grenier, as well as publisher Pierre-Luc Landry of Editions Triptyque at Groupe Nota Bene; current English language publisher Dundurn Press, as well as the Cooke McDermid Agency and senior rights agent Carolyn Buszynski!The post Le Fruit de la Puanteur, the French translation of Salt Fish Girl, shortlisted for the GG appeared first on Larissa Lai.
