Maud Lavin - "Mermaids and Lazy Activists" - Zachary Cahill
Maud Lavin will discuss her book Mermaids and Lazy Activists: A Lake Michigan Tale. She will be joined in conversation by Zachary Cahill. A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation and reading.
At the Co-op
About the Book: Publishers Weekly has called Mermaids and Lazy Activists "a thoughtful climate manifesto" and writer Susan Orlean praises it as "a sexy, sassy environmental tale." An experienced nonfiction writer, Lavin combines auto-fiction, magic realism about freshwater mermaids, eco facts, and humor to create an experimental romp in her debut novel. She loves making people laugh while plotting eco-activism.
About the Author: Writer and art historian Maud Lavin’s most recent books are the eco-novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists: A Lake Michigan Tale (From Beyond Press), with a portion of sales going to the Great Lakes nonprofit FLOW: For Love of Water, and the poetry collection Swim Lessons (Tulipwood). She is also the author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch, named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and given a George Wittenborn Memorial Award; Clean New World; Push Comes to Shove; and Silences, Ohio, as well as the editor of three anthologies. Her writing has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and other grants--and residencies at Ragdale and the National University of Singapore.
About the Interlocutor: Zachary Cahill is an artist and writer, author of the novel The Black Flame of Paradise; the graphic novel Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie; Unicorn Death Moon Day Planner, and Unicorn Death Moon Paris Guidebook.
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Maud Lavin's debut novel follows a woman of a certain age who loves to swim and meets Evelyn, a mermaid-feral, strapping, rule-breaking-in Lake Michigan. Evelyn is all id. The two become friends, competitors, and reluctant activists in the Great Lakes clean water movement, while also taking over...