A letter, a line, a passage: a sea of syllables shores up bodies dreamt, dreams remembered, of places foreign yet familiar, always already lost yet impossible to forget. Libraries are where literature-bodies go to rest only to live on forever, time and again, from the lingering finger to the moving lips.
To conclude the 2023 Librarians-in-Residence programme, we welcome three writers – Minying Huang (poet, Oxford), Travis Jeppesen (novelist, Berlin), and Eric Yip (poet, Cambridge) – to the Asymmetry HQ for an afternoon reading of recent and unpublished works. In tones ranging from the confessional to the observant, by intervals sardonic and devastating, they are united by a queer zest for the ephemeral, the not-yet and the in-between.
The event is convened by our librarian-in-residence Alvin Li, who will have a conversation with our guests after their reading.