Xiaolu Guo: A Whale of a Retelling
Xiaolu Guo
Edinburgh Futures Institute
22 Aug
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Writer, artist, and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo is critically acclaimed in every medium she touches. Her novel Call Me Ishmaelle is the most recent incarnation of her astonishingly varied vision and talent – a bold, playful, gender-swapping retelling of Moby Dick that reinvigorates Melville’s classic. She chats today about challenging conventions, our relationship to the natural world, and trying to fit the whole world on a whaling ship. Chaired by Barry Pierce.