Selling Fast
Meet Jesse Ball and hear about what has been described as his most accessible novel yet – How to Set Fire and Why is his startling, subversive story about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything.
Brisbane Writers Festival 2017
In Conversation / Selling Fast
How to Set a Fire and Why
Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball is a novelist born in New York. His many and varied works of absurdity are beloved in a dozen languages. He is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Heinz, and Guggenheim Foundations among others. Jesse was recently named a Granta Best of Young American Novelist.
Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea is the author of four books of poems: Flight Animals, The Wooden Cat and Other Poems, The Other Way Out, and most recently The Deep North: A Selection of Poems. Her poems are also widely published in anthologies. Bronwyn reviews poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for a number of literary pages, and she is a Politics and Society columnist at The Conversation. She lives in Brisbane and teaches literature and writing at the University of Queensland.