On Thursday, November 20, join n+1 for a conversation with Ilya Gridneff about Your Name Here, a novel co-written with Helen DeWitt. Your Name Here is out now from Dalkey Archive and was originally excerpted in n+1 in 2008. Gridneff will discuss the novel with n+1 contributor Mark Iosifescu.
Copies of Your Name Here will be for sale, along with beer and wine. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. The n+1 office is wheelchair accessible.
A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt, and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.
In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff present a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books, weaving together material as diverse as America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, Scientology, dream analysis, linguistics, email correspondence, screenshots, and graphs into a novel of unparalleled scope and vision.
Through a metafictional sleight of hand reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman‘s Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself.
Ilya Gridneff is a Toronto-based journalist working for the Financial Times. Over the years he has written articles for the Baffler, Vice, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and Foreign Policy. He has lived and worked in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, London and Berlin.