With five writers as good as this on stage together, IFOA thought it might be fun not to to have a discussion topic, but to just let them see where their conversation takes them. Amanda Boyden, Paul Quarrington, Nathaniel Rich, and Nathan Whitlock sit down with
Walrus Magazine Arts and Entertainment editor Daniel Baird to talk about what's on their minds.
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Born in Los Angeles, Daniel Baird lived and worked in New York City from 1989, where he was a founder of The Brooklyn Rail, a magazine for which he worked as an art editor, feature writer, and monthly columnist.
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Amanda Boyden is the author of the acclaimed novel Pretty Little Dirty. She received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she currently teaches English. Boyden presents Babylon Rolling, the story of five families living along an Uptown block in New Orleans the year before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
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Paul Quarrington is a novelist, musician, screenwriter and non-fiction writer. His screen-writing credits include Due South (for which he was Gemini nominated). His musical credits include his current band, PorkBelly Futures. And his novel-writing credits include Galveston, The Ravine, and King Leary, which, defended by Dave Bidini, won CBC Canada Reads in 2008.
Nathaniel Rich grew up in Manhattan and is currently an editor at The Paris Review. He is the author of San Francisco Noir, which Martin Scorsese called “a fascinating work of film criticism.”
