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Brian Joseph Davis

Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He is the author of Portable Altamont (Coach House Books), the novel I, Tania (ECW Press), and the upcoming short fiction collection, Ronald Reagan, My Father. L.A. Weekly recently declared, “Davis has an amazing head for aural experiments—creating expansive compositions out of found sounds and computer manipulations—that are smart on paper and fascinating in execution.” Slate.com called I, Tania, “The book of your fever dreams.” He is the co-founder of Joyland.ca.

Related Scream Events

The Joyland Joy-athon

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 8:00pm

The Stealth Lounge (above the Pilot)

22 Cumberland Ave.

Cost: $5 Suggested, free with t-shirt

Hosts
Brian Joseph Davis
Emily Schultz
Featured Performers
Zoe Whittall
Kevin Connolly
Carl Wilson
Emily Holton
Faye Guenther
Lynn Henry
Michael Holmes
Maggie MacDonald
Claudia Dey
Rebecca Rosenblum
Stacey May Fowles

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Break your mourning and throw off the black clothes for one evening as Joyland.ca and the Scream Literary Festival peddle eleven readers, raffle prizes, and, yes, T-shirts! Claudia Dey, Rebecca Rosenblum, and Stacey May Fowles read their own work from Joyland and Maggie MacDonald will perform a dramatic reading of a script by Bruce LaBruce. Helping out with cover readings are: Zoe Whittall, Kevin Connolly, Carl Wilson, Emily Holton, and Faye Guenther. And in a very special set, editors Lynn Henry and Michael Holmes read their own writers!

Hosted by Brian Joseph Davis and Emily Schultz, the world’s most incompetent capitalists, who will beg and plead for T-shirt sales in an entertaining fashion throughout the entire night.

Joyland.ca is an international hub for short fiction founded by well-meaning mixed citizenship couple Brian Joseph Davis (CAN) and Emily Schultz (US/CAN). To date the site has featured work by Lydia Millet, Lynn Coady, Jonathan Lethem, Ed Park, Nathan Sellyn, and many other emerging and established talents.

Submitted by aaron on June 12, 2009 - 6:23pm.
Submitted by aaron on June 14, 2009 - 3:23pm.

 

 

 

The Scream Literary Festival would not be possible without the generous funding of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Department of Canadian Heritage (through its Arts Presentation Program), The Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council. Site designed by Stop14 Media.

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