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September 23, 2022
Margaret Gracie Q&A with Larissa at the Victoria Festival of Authors
Margaret Gracie talks to Larissa about her newly-released novel The Lost Century.
Read the full Q&A on the VFA website.
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February 10, 2021
Iron Goddess of Mercy among most anticipated poetry of 2021: 49th Shelf
Along with some exciting company, Iron Goddess of Mercy this week made 49th Shelf’s list of the Most Anticipated poetry of 2021:
“Iron Goddess of Mercy (March), by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai, captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dances with them through the horror of the long now, inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong.”
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September 5, 2020
A Song for Clara Cruise
Reader Bia Moraes writes:
“I recently read salt fish girl, and today this song kept playing again and again in my mind. This is how I imagine it. I’m sorry if this is creepy. “
Not creepy at all, Bia. Thanks!
Listen to Bia’s song here:
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July 18, 2020
Machine Dreams reading at Harvard
Machine Dreams is a podcast series created by an English undergraduate seminar run by Margaret Rhee in the Department of English at Harvard University. Larissa was invited to read for the series, and the podcast was published this week. From the series website:
Poet and novelist Larissa Lai reads from and discusses her book Automaton Biographies, which she describes is organized around the question of “Who gets to be human, and when?” She discusses why the character Rachel, from Blade Runner, allowed her rethink the writing of autobiography, poetry as a way to convey an expression of cyborg being through an “intentionally awkward way of being in English,” and both race- and species-based dehumanization in science fiction and neocolonial contexts in her poem “Ham,” titled after the chimpanzee sent into space.
Hear Larissa’s reading, and others in the series, at the Machine Dreams website, or listen to Larissa here:
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July 10, 2019
The Tiger Flu reviewed in Geist 112
Kirsten Lawson’s review of The Tiger Flu was published in Geist 112. You can read it here:
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July 5, 2019
Review of The Tiger Flu in Speculating Canada
Speculating Canada has published a review of The Tiger Flu by Derek Newman-Stille:
“Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu is a fever dream on paper, vivid and fantastical, and full of nightmares, which is perfect for a pandemic narrative.”
Read Derek’s full review, titled Fever Dream.
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May 14, 2019
Lambda Literary reviews The Tiger Flu
The Tiger Flu has been reviewed by Tara Scott on Lambda Literary:
“The Tiger Flu is a wonderfully disorienting book that constantly challenges expectations.”
Read Tara’s full review here.
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February 17, 2019
The Tiger Flu excerpted in Rungh Magazine
The Tiger Flu has been excerpted in Rungh Magazine. Read it here.
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December 28, 2018
The Advocate’s Best Books of 2018
The Tiger Flu was one of the titles listed in The Advocate’s ‘Best Books of 2018’ list. See the whole list here.
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December 23, 2018
The Verge’s favourite books of 2018
The Tiger Flu has been named one of The Verge’s favourite SF&F books of 2018! See the full list here.
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