Tzavta #43 Max Porter

As part of our ongoing collaboration with Wordfest, Sidewalk Citizen was excited to announce our Tzavta Salon featured award-winning British novelist Max Porter, who was on tour with his highly anticipated new novel, SHY.

Described as "the supreme word alchemist," Porter was beloved by the world's tastiest writers, including Maggie O'Farrell, Ocean Vuong, and Nick Hornby. The Believer's Heidi Julavits raved about Porter’s 2016 debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers as “less a novel than a totally new and feathered thing – hilarious, poetic, cheeky, postmodern, I guess, but in the most earnest and emotionally forthright way. I was as gripped as I was stunned by Porter’s linguistic daredevilry, his intelligence, his emotional go-for-the-gut-ness.”

The Tzavta Cultural Dinner Salon experience included a multi-course dinner, created in Porter’s honour by Park chef Stephan Gusztak, followed by conversation, a Q&A (hosted by Wordfest Creative Ringleader Shelley Youngblut), and a book signing.