Third Friday Reading Series

Aaron Vidaver launched (for the second time?) his Counter-Interpellation, Volume One (Vancouver: CUE Books, 2018) at the People's Co-op Bookstore last night. Also on the bill was Natalie Knight, who was unavailable due to her commitment to social housing activism in Maple Ridge.

Standing in for Natalie was Third Friday programmer Danielle LaFrance, who explained Natalie's reasons for not taking part before reading some of her (Danielle's) correspondence with Aaron -- from a series of 2016 conversations related to library and archival work (Danielle is employed as a librarian, Aaron is an archivist) to her most recent reminder of the evening before us.

Rather than read from Counter-Interpellation, Volume One (a gathering of documents pertinent to Aaron's adoption and construction as a state subject), Aaron read from a recently (FOI-)obtained transcription of his uncle Matt's interrogation before a 1955 HUAC sub-committee in Los Angeles. Following that, a fascinating conversation about government records -- who has them, how to find them and, in some instances, which ones are for sale.