Our second installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on July 28th at 7pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Tracy Lynne Oliver about her debut novel Magician, a dark fantasy that follows a Boy who survives an unspeakably violent childhood through a mysterious, intervening magic. When he escapes into the care of a traveling circus, he discovers wonder, chosen family, and an apprenticeship that awakens a power far greater than he understands. As ambition reshapes him into the Magician, the very force that once saved him begins to isolate him and threaten everything he loves.
Dennis Cooper, author of I Wished, had this to say about the brilliant Magician: “Rapturously beautiful and, I would go so far as to say, a perfect novel. Tracy Lynne Oliver’s sentences are an excitable reader’s dream — as meticulous and decisive as any story could ever want and yet so unforeseeable and inventive they seem to jiggle in place. If you’re interested in American fiction at its utmost, this is an event.”
Debbie will be speaking with Tracy for 45 minutes and then will open the conversation to questions from the audience.
Tracy Lynne Oliver is a writer based in Los Angeles. She has been published online at a variety of places such as Medium, Fanzine and Occulum. She co-authored the graphic novel, The Sacrifice of Darkness, with Roxane Gay. Her story, “This Weekend” was chosen to be in Best Microfiction 2019.
Please register here and join us on July 28th at 7pm ET.
*PSA: There have been some scam e-mails purportedly sent from The Rumpus, soliciting authors for our book club for a fee. Please disregard these e-mails. Official Rumpus e-mails will always come from therumpus.net, from a senior editor on our official masthead, and we do not charge authors to be featured in our book club. Money flows to the writer. Never forget!
