Crosscurrents of History: Jeremy Tiang at the Vancouver Writers Fest

James Baldwin said, “If history were past, history wouldn’t matter. History is present… You and I are history. We carry our history. We act our history.” Writers are often thought of as existing between worlds. These writers and their books cross the livewires of recent history, attending to fractures of time, chance, and place—all streams that heighten our experiences of the present world. How do these impact the way we see ourselves, and by extension, how we make stories and lives despite these fractures? Jeremy Tiang (State of Emergency), Kyle Edwards (Small Ceremonies), and Maria Reva (Endling) discuss, in conversation with Guest Curator Canisia Lubrin.