March 28 - April 1, 2007

Andy Brown, The Mole Chronicles. (Insmoniac Press)

Andy Brown is the founder and sole proprietor of Conundrum Press which just celebrated its tenth anniversary as “one of Canada’s most innovative presses” (Quill & Quire). He is also the art director and a contributing editor for Matrix magazine. He has written extensively on comics, zines, and alternative publishing for a variety of journals and magazines including Maisonneuve, Matrix, Broken Pencil, and the Montreal Review of Books. He is the author of a book of short stories, I can see you being invisible (DC Books), and the recent novel The Mole Chronicles (Insomniac), as well as being the co-editor of You and Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (Véhicle) and Running with Scissors (Cumulus). He is a founder and organizer of Expozine: Montreal’s Small Press, Comic, and Zine Fair which has grown to become one of the largest events if its kind in North America.

Sunday, April 1, 2007
Lord Nelson Hotel
2PM
with Stephen Brunt and Marq de Villiers.

Public Workshop: Saturday
March 31st
Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library

-------------------------------------------------------- Andy Brown's first novel follows a sibling relationship told through vignettes, each story centered around the removal of a mole. From this premise, Brown's novel expands the associations of moles from skin disease, to the burrowing animal, to secret societies and espionage, to tell the story of familial dysfunction, culture-jamming, eco-terrorism, and regret in the lives of young adults in the 1990s. The Mole Chronicles is an engaging and innovative debut novel.