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About the book:

Set in 1990s New York, Slow Reveal paints a portrait of artists who defy the arbiters of culture and challenge social norms. Art, addiction and family dynamics capsize the Kanes when they discover the parallel life of Katharine, film editor, mother, lover and wife.

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned,” wrote Paul Valéry, an outcome echoed in her decade-long affair with Naomi, a lesbian poet. Katharine’s marriage to Jonathan collapses in his struggle with sobriety when he’s ostracized for politicizing art and abandons his career for advertising. Faced with confrontations from her two grown daughters, an installation artist and an aspiring writer, Katharine hangs onto her former life. When unforeseen tragedy strikes, devotion and commitment are not the guardrails that keep their work or relationships on track but rather a form of entrapment.

A captivating story about relevance at the end of the 20th century, the novel questions the voracious demands of contemporary society through a riveting portrayal of turbulent family life, impacted by art shaped by the media and influenced by social and political injustice. Success is redefined by the courage to embark on the artistic process, as risky, messy and unpredictable as building intimacy and trust in love.

Melanie Mitzner's novel Slow Reveal was published this May by Inanna Publications, York University, Toronto. The work was selected as Best of Women's Fiction 2022 Debuts and an excerpt was published on Bloom. She was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship for her play Personal Effects. Her screenplay Dodge and Burn was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships. In the Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. An excerpt of her novel Too Good to Be True was published in Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly.

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Her book reviews are published on Vol1Brooklyn. Her poem “On Be[longing]” was selected and sold at Poetic Notions Group Show Centre d’art E.K. Voland in Montréal. Her articles have appeared in Gay & Lesbian Review, Wine Spectator, Hamptons, The Groovy Mind blog, Society for Curious Thought, Broadcast Week, Millimeter and an inventor series for Video Systems. As a former tech journalist, she covered television production/visual effects and freelanced for Sony and Bosch. She lives with her partner, artist Nicke Gorney, in Montréal and New York.