Junction Reads with Martha Baillie, Sara Flemington, and Rachel Phan

Junction Reads is an online reading series that offers one on one conversations and readings with authors of great prose.

Junction Reads

Livestream of our in-person event at TYPE Books in the Junction. Join us there or stay home and watch  event from the comfort of home.

Join us for the livestream of our finale at TYPE Books Junction.6:30pm ET.<a href="https://marthabaillie.ca/" title="https://marthabaillie.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Martha Baillie</a>, <a href="https://saraflemington.wordpress.com/" title="https://saraflemington.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sara Flemington</a>, and Rachel Phan guide us into the summer with readings and a Q and A. You can also win a bundle of books, which will help for all the summer reading!Martha Baillie will share a reading from her memoir in essays, THERE IS NO BLUE from <a href="https://chbooks.com/Books/T/There-Is-No-Blue" title="https://chbooks.com/Books/T/There-Is-No-Blue" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coach House Books.</a>"Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author’s mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers the author’s father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the centre of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother’s. And then, the shocking death of the author’s sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life."Sara Flemington joins us with the literary mystery, RIP SCOOT, from <a href="https://nightwoodeditions.com/collections/sara-flemington/products/9780889714823" title="https://nightwoodeditions.com/collections/sara-flemington/products/9780889714823" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nightwood Editions.</a>"Twentysomething Austin lives alone in a crumbling office-turned-studio apartment of a former mops, brushes and brooms factory in Toronto. After a deformed and lice-ridden cat turns up at his door, then abruptly dies three weeks later, Austin begins to find frightening coincidences connecting him to a squatter living in his local Walmart, a botanical garden in Missouri, a shipping route from Greece, a muralist in Japan, the world of an online dystopia and more. As the obsession with piecing together the mystery surrounding his dead pet, and the reward the cat is potentially worth, takes over, Austin confronts his financial and family issues, his self-imposed isolation and his abandoned sense of direction. He discovers what purpose this mystery might actually serve in helping him cope with, and potentially recover, all that he’s really lost."Rachel Phan shares a reading from her memoir, RESTAURANT KID from <a href="https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771624343?srsltid=AfmBOopm5ozb8Bpd6EiYNGHarE94CXRDv90_S-25C8Sbu0JPVsA50r2u" title="https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771624343?srsltid=AfmBOopm5ozb8Bpd6EiYNGHarE94CXRDv90_S-25C8Sbu0JPVsA50r2u" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Douglas &amp; McIntyre.</a>"When she was three years old, Rachel Phan met her replacement. Instead of a new sibling, her mother and father’s time and attention were suddenly devoted entirely to their new family restaurant. For her parents—whose own families fled China during Japanese occupation and then survived bombs and starvation during the war in Vietnam—it was a dream come true. For Phan, it was something quite different. Overnight, she became a restaurant kid, living on the periphery of her own family and trying her best to stay out of the way. As Phan grew up, the restaurant was the most stalwart and suffocating member of her family. For decades, it’s been both their crowning achievement and the origin of so much of their pain and suffering: screaming matches complete with smashed dishes; bodies worn down by long hours and repetitive strain; and tenuous relationships where the family loved one another deeply without ever really knowing each other."This is a PWYC event with ALL proceeds supporting our authors this season. All paid registrations will be entered into the book raffle.

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