Eldon Garnet was the editor of IMPULSE, a highly influential international magazine of art and culture.  Simultaneously pursuing his interests in visual art, theory, and literature, Garnet has become one of Canada’s most original contemporary artists, with surveys at the National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the Amsterdam Center of Photography, as well as a previous book, Reading Brooke Shields The Garden of Failure, published by Semiotext(e) to wide acclaim. The Toronto Globe & Mail called Reading Brooke Shields, “a terrific book, an unforgettable pop novel,” and Gary Michael Dault called “chokingly funny.”  He lives in Toronto, but spends months alone in his remote cabin in the Canadian wilderness.

“From his room, from the place where he sleeps and works, books over flow out into the kitchen: books stacked on top of the fridge, on the counter, on the toaster, anywhere a surface is flat enough to precariously balance. It isn’t that X owns so many books, but those he possesses are being employed, read, marked: scoured for information and from which information is ferociously being extracted”