Book Launch: Another Bone-Swapping Event by Brad Fox in conversation with Jordan Kisner

Book Launch: Another Bone-Swapping Event by Brad Fox in conversation with Jordan Kisner

Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY 11201

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About the Book.

Brad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru.

“Brad Fox has traveled to the center of many worlds and here records a visit to the ‘passionate nada’ in his disarming, beautifully natural style. Stranded in a powerful landscape, a clear voice renders human situations in elegant sentences that build to animate profound heartache and self-discovery. Read Another Bone-Swapping Event and witness what transforms.”
Eugene Lim, author of Search History and Fog & Car

In Another Bone-Swapping Event, Brad Fox tells the story of a year he spent stuck in the high jungles of Peru living with a family of Quechua-speaking curanderos responsible for a hundred-hectare stretch of jungle four hours’ walk from the nearest dirt road. In the care of local maestro Miguel Tapullima, Fox gets a crash course in traditional medicine and takes readers on a labyrinthine tour, in turn contemplative and comic, navigating the coexisting realities of the human and more-than-human world.

Through it all, the lush prose that made The Bathysphere Book so distinct turns this book into its own rich and multi-layered experience, because with Brad Fox as our guide we’re able to stretch our minds to encompass histories and meanings, metaphysical questions at the base of phenomena, and the shattering ironies of the moment, all during peak COVID, when no one knew how our collective future might unfold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author. 

Brad Fox’s first book of nonfiction, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths, won the National Book Foundation’s Science and Literature Award. His novel To Remain Nameless was a finalist for the Big Other Award for
Fiction. His stories, articles, and translations have appeared in The New YorkerGuernicaThe Paris Review Daily, and The Public Domain Review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author. 
Jordan Kisner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of the essay collection Thin Places. Formerly, she was a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and her essays and features have also appeared in The Believern+1, the Yale ReviewHarper’s Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, and others. She also hosts the podcast Thresholds in partnership with Literary Hub. Kisner is an assistant professor of creative writing at Bowdoin College, and she is currently a 2025–2026 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.