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Michael LaPointe
Michael LaPointe is a novelist, critic, journalist and producer in Toronto, Canada.
He has published a novel with Random House Canada, written criticism and journalism for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, and produced series for BBC Radio 4.
He is represented by Julie Flanagan at Creative Artists Agency, and can be reached by email.
The Creep
A novel published by Random House Canada
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"A deep, weird, and uncanny tale. I stayed up all night reading and then it gave me nightmares" - Sheila Heti
"It is so refreshing to read a novel from an author who actually seems like they were alive when they wrote it" - Lauren Oyler
"A propulsive investigative saga that bursts with bioethical curiosities, and violence" - The Times Literary Supplement
The Events at X
A novella published in Dead Writers
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"LaPointe's prose is powerful, angry, and deeply empathetic" - The Winnipeg Free-Press
"This unsettling echo of ongoing CanLit complicity produces haunting resonances . . . LaPointe's eerie slow burn leaps off the page and into our lives." - The Ex-Puritan
"LaPointe manages to exploit our own readerly complicity in the colonial conduct toward Indigenous peoples . . . Readers find themselves in a similar crisis of conscience that underlines our collective responsibility for the national sins of the past." - The Ampersand Review
Operation Morning Light
A documentary podcast
Listen: Apple / Spotify
★ ★ ★ ★
"Eerie, atmospheric, beautiful" - The Times of London
"Captivating . . . this story gradually unfolds from dreaminess into foreboding." - The Guardian
"Best podcast of the year" - Financial Times
Articles
An interview with Werner Herzog for The New Yorker
An essay about Colette for The New Yorker
A true-crime feature about the world's largest pearl for The Atlantic
A column about gamblers for The Paris Review
A profile of James McCourt for The New Yorker
Stories
Private Hands
Published in The Walrus and nominated for the National Magazine Award in Fiction
Candidate
Published in The Walrus, anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and nominated for the Journey Prize
The Stunt
Published in Hazlitt, nominated for the Digital Publish Awards, and anthologized in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century
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