Suite (212)

Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist who has published two works of fiction with Manchester-based independent publisher Dostoyevsky Wannabe, edited an anthology of exploratory queer literature entitled Liberating the Canon, and who - with artist Richard Porter of Pilot Press (https://pilotpress.tumblr.com) - curates the Queers Read This series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. This week, new Suite (212) co-host Lara Alonso Corona asks Isabel about queer and working-class representation in 'experimental' writing, how useful such labels are, and what queer authors can take from a modernist canon that is largely white, male, cisgender, heterosexual and middle-class. SELECTED REFERENCES Works by Isabel Waidner Gaudy Bauble (2017) – https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/gaudy_bauble Liberating the Canon (editor, 2018) – https://www.dostoyevskywannabe.com/experiments/liberating_the_canon We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (2019) – https://www.dostoyevskywannabe.com/we_are_made_of_diamond_stuff/