BOOK LAUNCH: NEITHER EITHER NOR OR By Joey Dubuc Friday May 14, 2004 7 - 9pm

Art Metropole in collaboration with Conundrum Press hosted the Toronto launch of Neither Either Nor Or by Joey Dubuc! An enthusiastic crowd enjoyed Dubuc's audience driven reading with accompanying slide images.

Dubuc reading from Neither Either Nor Or	The crowd gives their full attention to the author - ready to shout out choices as needed.	Dubuc signing for a happy fan.

Inspired by Edward Packard's Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, artist Joey Dubuc has created the genre-defying literary debut Neither Either Nor Or. Follow along while trying to avoid the pitfalls of his winding narrative as it leads (or loses) you through caverns, forests, rivers, or along a cliff¹s edge. At surface what seems to be a simple rumination on death becomes a metaphysical quest guided by existential choices, glimpsed through the lens of nostalgia.

"From the layout to the typeface to the illustrations, this is a flawless evocation of the golden age of 1980s young adult literature... Being one who is rarely nostalgic the design of this book, with its Todd Haynes intensity and aesthetic referencing, consumed me like a virus. Taking a lowbrow form of literature, and a very specific one at that, and using it to expand the limits of what a book can be is no cheap trick. More a disorientation generator than a story, it fulfills the promise of adventure, albiet with a ruckus filled with existential crisis after crisis." - Broken Pencil

Art Metropole would like to thank Andy from Conundrum Press and Joey for their good humour and enthusiasm. It was a pleasure to host this event!