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The Art of Trespassing in your city

November 4, 2008 by invisiblepublishing

So we launched The Art of Trespassing into the stratosphere, suckas. We read in Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, Winnipeg and Ottawa! We read on a boat! We read with a goat! Okay, that’s not true, but we did read on a boat, thanks to anthology contributor Stephen Guy and the Wolfe Island Ferry Story Cabal (see pictures below). A kind person from Kingston also wrote this killer article about the anthology and “dorks on a boat”. Adele Barclay, you are a credit to student journalists everywhere. Any kind of journalist, really.

In Winnipeg we hit #3 on the McNally Robinson Booksellers bestseller list for paperback fiction for 2 weeks, beating out both The DaVinci Code and the Bible. And check this review from The Nova Scotian (follow the link for full review):

The Art of Trespassing is great, an eclectic anthology of short stories carefully wrapped in a package that presents these new writers in style. Anna Leventhal has gathered a diverse collection of stories differing wildly in style, imagination, energy and rhythm, all of which somehow create a whole. No small feat. […]

These new writers sometimes eschew more formal literary structures. The result is a collection that crackles with texture and energy. There is much movement in these stories, people going away or coming back, “pushing the envelope,” wanting change or wanting to thwart change.

- Judith Meyrick, The Nova Scotian

Here are some photos from various launches, featuring a group of ridiculously good-looking writers. Thanks to various intrepid photographers Leigh, Chris, Mark, my dad, and others whose names escape me for taking them.