Christine Lai’s debut novel, Landscapes, is published by Doubleday Canada (May2023), and Two Dollar Radio in the United States (September 2023). Landscapes was previously shortlisted for the inaugural Novel Prize. Christine holds a PhD in English Literature from University College London. Christine began work on this essay as part of her residency at Geist. References to Walker Evans’s lectures and Paul Éluard’s letters and essay come from Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, edited by David Prochaska and Jordana Mendelson (Pennsylvania State UP, 2010).
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