63 Due South

Stephen Miller

British Columbia

Emily Schultz

Ontario

Emily St. John Mandel

United States

Stephen Miller, British Columbia

Stephen Miller is a Vancouver-based author, playwright and actor. He has appeared in The X-Files, DaVinci’s Inquest and Millennium. He has an M.A. from the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program and is the author of two acclaimed historical thrillers featuring Inspector Pyotr Ryzhkov: Field of Mars and The Last Train to Kazan. Miller’s latest novel is The Messenger. Read more

Emily Schultz, Ontario

Emily Schultz’s acclaimed books include Black Coffee Night, a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award, Joyland and Heaven is Small, a finalist for the 2010 Trillium Award. Her writing has appeared inthe Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, The Walrus, Geist and several anthologies. Schultz also edits an influential website called Joyland, which publishes short fiction and commentary from across North America. Her new novel is The Blondes. She lives in Toronto and New York. Read more

Emily St. John Mandel, United States

Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, studied dance in Toronto and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York. Her first two novels, Last Night in Montreal and The Singer’s Gun, were both Indie Next Picks, among other distinctions. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her work has appeared in the recent anthologies The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of the Book and Venice Noir. Her new book is The Lola Quartet. Read more

Host: Jerry Wasserman
Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 2:00pm
Improv Centre
$17

Contemporary American politics, culture and economics are major forces that shape society—for better or for worse. With its size and reach, what happens in America doesn’t stay in America. No wonder, then, that these three Canadian novelists set their stories there. Stephen Miller takes the political road, telling the story of a young female terrorist whose goal is to infect as many people in the United States as she can. Emily Schultz takes a comic swipe at American culture, unleashing a bevy of blondes whose attacks on passersby are symptoms of a deadly illness. Emily St. John Mandel’s literary thriller is infected with foreclosed homes and weed-fringed cul-de-sacs, symptomatic of America’s economic woes. What is it about the elephant to our south that continues to fascinate us so much?