Image courtesy the author and Peninsula Press
Join us for the UK launch of The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan.
Eliza will be in conversation with writer Holly Connolly. There will be readings, a Q&A, signing, and drinks.
ABOUT THE HEARING TEST
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the spectre of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year—a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned—while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
Through a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters—with neighbours, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and philosophers—making meaning becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival.
Published by Peninsula Press, an independent publisher of boundary-pushing fiction and essays.
ABOUT ELIZA BARRY CALLAHAN
Eliza Barry Callahan (b.1995) is a writer, artist, and filmmaker from New York, New York Her debut novel, The Hearing Test, was published in March in the US and is forthcoming in the UK in April, 2024. She is a 2023 New York Foundation for The Arts Fellow. She teaches at Columbia University.
ABOUT HOLLY CONNOLLY
Holly Connolly is a writer based in London. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Financial Times, ArtReview, The London Review of Books and AnOther, among others.
ACCESS
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- This event is seated.
- The Clore Studio is on the ground floor.
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