‘For queer artists of a certain age we just assumed that to write was to experiment,’ Andrea Lawlor, a gender queer novelist and lecturer, told The New York Times.
Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl offers a speculative history of early 1990s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Shapeshifting Paul can transform his body at will - setting in train a series of riotous adventures that take him on a journey through a world gutted by loss and pulsing with music.
Andrea Lawlor joins broadcaster and journalist Una Mullally in conversation for a fascinating event about writing, and how novels can bend genre as well as gender.