Olivia Laing and Jack Parlett: The Silver Book

Venice, September 1974. A chance meeting between a young English artist and Danilo Donati, production manager for Fellini and Pasolini, leads us into a tale of queer love, political intrigue and brutal murder.

Emily Watlington wrote in Art in America ‘In our own era of rising fascism, of increasing violence and conservatism, Laing’s novel feels eerily timely.’

To mark the paperback publication of The Silver Book Olivia Laing was in conversation with Jack Parlett, author of Flamboyance, Fire Island and The Poetics of Cruising.