The Man Game

...My theory was strengthened as I arrived, fresh from the airport in the autumn of 2008, at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto where writer Lee Henderson was launching his new book The Man Game. As part of This is Not A Reading Series, which promotes small press books through anything but traditional readings, Henderson invited a collection of artists who had recently vacated Vancouver to help launch his book. Accompanied by Jason Mclean, Keith Jones, Shay Semple, Marc Bell, Dan Siney and-at the very last minute-me, Henderson celebrated his book of fiction that maps out Van-city through the sport of naked wrestling. It was as much celebration as it was frustration...