Babette’s Feast / EMBRACING THE STRANGE x CIRCLE LINE – Launch

PUBLISHED January 6th, 2014 04:34 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am

Math Paper Press

proudly presents

BABETTE’S FEAST

XVI

EMBRACING THE STRANGE

by Jason Erik Lundberg

+

XVII

CIRCLE LINE

by Theophilus Kwek

LAUNCH + READING :

☞ 7 Jan 2014, Tuesday

7.30 pm at BooksActually

(№ 9 Yong Siak Street, Singapore 168645)

E M B R A C I N G ‧ T H E ‧ S T R A N G E

In early 2012, Jason Erik Lundberg was asked to deliver a plenary talk to Singapore’s best and brightest young creative writers. He chose to speak about the extraordinary impact of speculative fiction on every facet of life, from childhood to the birth of his daughter, and beyond. This talk was expanded, and integrated with a multi-part short story about a brave little girl who tumbles down a very different kind of rabbit hole, and must use her bravery and intelligence in order to find her way home. The result is a 14,000-word hybrid-essay of such power and poignancy that the real and the imagined become inextricably mixed.

C I R C L E ‧ L I N E

“Ultimately pragmatic – and yet a contradiction in terms – the ‘Circle Line’ is a daily metaphor for journeys that take us back to the same place: but not quite. Again and again, and differently each time, every stop becomes a starting-point for us to consider what happens when our circles align, or when our lines, as in these pages, come full circle.”