Wednesday 4th Oct
6:30-9pm
Please join us for the launch of Roundabout, the debut novel by Will Mountain Cox, which follows a group of friends and lovers in Paris as they weather the polycrisis of contemporary life, exploring cycles of connecting, belonging, departing, and inevitable change.
Joining Will in conversation is acclaimed writer Lucia Osborne-Crowley, to discuss who actually narrates our stories and how we fight to control the narratives of our lives.
Will Mountain Cox is a writer from Portland, Oregon living in Paris, France. His work has appeared in Forever Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Shabby Doll House and The Drunken Canal. He is the author of With Paris in Mind and was a co-founder of the literary magazine, Belleville Park Pages. He is a graduate of Boston University and Sciences Po Paris.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a writer and journalist. She is the author of I Choose Elena, My Body Keeps Your Secrets and The Lasting Harm (2024). She is the winner of the 2022 Somerset Maugham Prize for literature. Her journalism and literary work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the TLS, the Wall Street Journal and more.
Roundabout is published by Relegation Books, an independent publisher founded by Dallas Hudgens and based in Washington, D.C.