Reading

Mark Z. Danielewski became internationally known for his cult-favourite first novel, House of Leaves. His new book, Only Revolutions, is a shoot-from-the-hip road novel about two wayward, wild kids who careen across the American mainland.

Lisa Gabriele is the author of the widely acclaimed novel Tempting Faith DiNapoli. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Vice and Salon as well as various anthologies, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading and Sex and Sensibility. She is also a regular contributor to Nerve. She has lived in Dawson City, Buenos Aires, New York City and Washington, D.C., and currently lives in Toronto where she works as a television producer/director. Gabriele presents The Almost Archer Sisters, a warm, witty and disarmingly honest look at the devotion and rivalry between two sisters bound by an impossible-to-forget past and a still-uncertain future.

Alon Hilu recently received the Israeli Presidential Prize for Literature. His novel Death of a Monk is set in 1840s Damascus, and recounts a young man’s painful ordeal after he is forced to wed against his will.

Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious, richly plotted suspense tale containing ironic visual aids drawn by Pessl herself.

Colson Whitehead is a MacArthur fellow and the author of The Colossus of New York, The Intuitionist, and John Henry Days, all of which received numerous nominations for prestigious awards.