Let's stop pretending we're revolutionaries
André Forget on his Giller-nominated debut In the City of Pigs, and the many ties that bind art to power
In the last few years, literary critic André Forget has been dividing his time between England, Russia and Canada. His debut novel, In the City of Pigs (yes, it’s a play on Hogtown… and greed) came out this year in Dundurn’s Rare Machines series and immediately found itself on the Giller longlist. It’s an intriguing ficto-musical experiment with element…