BOOK NEWS
Special Events
Special event tickets are on sale for Bruce Cockburn (Nov 10), Alan Doyle (Nov 13) and Conrad Black (Nov 13). More information at http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/events.
Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
The Scotiabank Giller Prize celebration is heading across Canada and will reach Vancouver on November 6. Readers will get a chance to peer inside the minds and creative lives of the writers who’ve made it onto the 2014 shortlist: David Bezmozgis, Frances Itani, Sean Michaels, Heather O'Neill, Miriam Toews and Padma Viswanathan.
The event also features special guest appearances and entertainment. Book News subscribers - use the promo code discount code AUTHOR and receive the special discount price of $20. Event information and ticket sales details: http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/11004D427A357D04
AWARDS & LISTS
The 2015 Carnegie Medal nominations have been announced. Leading authors on the list include Roddy Doyle, Patrick Ness and Sally Green.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/11173801/Carnegie-Medal-2015-nominations-announced.html
YOUNG READERS
Vivian versus America is the "perfect book to curl up with and read in one sitting, not too long or too short and with characters you fall in love with." It also tackles that favourite theme of YA fiction: dystopia.
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/oct/27/review-vivian-versus-america-katie-coyle
NEWS & FEATURES
It's Dylan Thomas' 100th birthday! In Wales, a toast is being made.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/world/europe/a-toast-to-dylan-thomas-on-his-100th-birthday.html
You can also take a quiz about the famous Welsh Poet. Celebrate his birthday by testing your knowledge of his life and work.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/quiz/2014/oct/27/quiz-dylan-thomas-centenary-100-birthday
What's the "lavender ceiling?" It is the representation of the fact that gay authors who "write honestly about contemporary gay life are rarely published to wide acclaim by mainstream publishers in Canada, and are often relegated to the sidelines and the small presses."
http://thewalrus.ca/queerer-than-fiction/
A new documentary has been made about Joan Didion. A preview is available online, here.
http://www.vogue.com/3243661/joan-didion-documentary-trailer-we-tell-ourselves-stories-in-order-to-live/
Can technology enhance print books? Here are 10 projects that aim to do so.
http://ebookfriendly.com/print-books-technology-projects/
"Superficially, women who write fiction today seem to get equal billing with their male counterparts. Yet their work will never get the kind of avid coverage given to men." Many years after Virginia Woolf, women are still fighting for a room of their own.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/women-writers-after-woolf-still-fighting-room-one-s-own
What are the top 10 "modernisers" in literature? "From the architects who built the postwar world to the writers who predicted its horrors" here are the books that best evoke the pioneering spirit of the postwar era.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/15/top-10-architect-modernisers-in-literature
What's the best word processor for writers? For Edward Mendelson, the choice is clear. "When I write in WordPerfect, with all its scruffy, low-tech simplicity, the world seems more open, a place where endings can't be predicted, where freedom might be real."
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/oct/21/escape-microsoft-word/
In Ballast to the White Sea, a lost novel by Malcolm Lowry, is set to be published. Its manuscript was thought to have been burned in a fire at Lowry's Vancouver home seventy years ago.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29757370
Who are your favourite villains in literature? In the first of a new series for The Guardian, Sarah Crown argues that "Tolkien's unseen Sauron from The Lord of the Rings is the most frightening and enduring."
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/oct/27/baddies-in-books-sauron-literatures-ultimate-source-of-evil
Halloween is right around the corner. Even famous authors like to get into the fun! Here's an "infographic" featuring costumes of famous authors like Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote and Anne Rice.
http://electricliterature.com/infographic-halloween-costumes-of-famous-authors/
BOOKS & WRITERS
Ian McEwan has "a weak spot for characters who have a weak spot for words." In his new book, a novella called The Children Act, the protagonist is "yet another writerly figure: a high court judge whose obsession with producing lucid prose for her judgments reflects the deadened state of her emotions."
http://therumpus.net/2014/10/the-children-act-by-ian-mcewan/
Susan Minot's new book, Thirty Girls, touches on a difficult and very contemporary subject: the abduction of thirty girls in Africa. She's interviewed by The Rumpus, here.
http://therumpus.net/2014/10/thr-rumpus-interview-with-susan-minot/
What's the last book you loved? For Richard Kramer, it was I Sang to Survive, a "harrowing, powerful, thrilling tale" written by an Auschwitz survivor.
http://therumpus.net/2014/10/the-last-book-i-loved-i-sang-to-survive/
David Gordon is a writer whose fiction "doesn't fall comfortably into one category. Depending on what you're reading and who you're talking to, he might be a mystery writer, a postmodernist, a satirist, or a hybrid." In this interview, he discusses his new collection and his formative writing years.
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/27/desperate-measures-an-interview-with-david-gordon
The Empties, by Jess Row, is this week's New Yorker story. It takes place three years in the future, after a nationwide blackout.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/empties
Jesse Row is interviewed about the story, here.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-this-week-jess-row-2014-11-03
Rudy Wiebe has written his last book. Why? "Life is short, there is not enough time to forget everything."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/why-author-rudy-wiebe-wrote-his-latest-book-life-is-short-there-is-not-enough-time-to-forget-everything/article21288358/
Michael Faber has also announced that his most recent novel, The Book of Strange New Things, is to be his last. "I felt that I had one more book in me that could be special and sincere and extraordinary, and that that would be enough," said Mr. Faber.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/arts/michel-faber-plans-to-stop-writing-novels.html
COMMUNITY EVENTS
ALCUIN SOCIETY BOOK AUCTION
November 1, from 11 am at UBC Golf Club (5185 University Blvd.) Free admission. Come, enjoy beautiful books at reduced prices starting at 1/2 cover price and support next year's Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design. This is Canada's only national competition for book design.
LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS
Vancouver writer Sam Wiebe reads from his latest book. Saturday, November 1 at 1:00pm. Chapters, Strawberry Hill.
NOIR AT THE BAR
A night of crime fiction. Drink, mingle and hear eight talented mystery writers read: E.R. Brown, D.B. Carew, Dietrich Kalteis, Owen Laukkanen, Charlotte Morganti, Linda L. Richards, Robin Spano and Sam Wiebe. Tuesday, November 4 at 7:00pm, free. Shebeen Whisk(e)y House, behind 212 Carrall, Vancouver.
RAWI HAGE
Opening reception and reading. Wednesday November 5 at 7:00pm, free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Woodwards, SFU, 149 W Hastings St. Vancouver. Please RSVP to https://www.facebook.com/events/871860279491340/.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL
Presented by UBC Continuing Studies and the Laurier Institution in partnership with UBC First Nations House of Learning and the Vancouver Writers Fest. Thursday, November 6 at 7:00pm. Cost: $5 – all proceeds donated to the First Nations House of Learning Bursary. Register by phoning 604-822-1444, or online at cstudies.ubc.ca/comeback. Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, First Nations Longhouse, 1985 West Mall, UBC Point Grey.
DEAD POETS READING SERIES
To mark Remembrance Day, five local writers will read from the work of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Keith Douglas and Denise Levertov. Sunday 9th November at 3 p.m. in the Alice Mackay Room, lower level, Vancouver Public Library., 350 West Georgia Street. Free.
TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON
Features Elaine Woo with Jen Currin and Christine Leclerc. Wednesday, November 12, 7:00pm. The Cottage Bistro, 4470 Main Street, Vancouver. Suggested donation at the door: $5. More information at www.pandorascollective.com.
AFGHAN STORYTELLING EVENING
A diverse line-up of speakers will tell short stories to accompany images of Afghanistan: about people, places, food, family, music, culture, art, education, and more. Thursday, November 13 at 7:00pm. Tickets include full dinner, dessert, beverages for $25 per person through Eventbrite or at Zulu Records at 1972 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver. Tickets at the door $35.00, cash or credit card. Details at cw4wafghan.ca.
Upcoming
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS: A GALA FUNDRAISER
In support Pandora's Collective's Poetry Outreach Program at the BC Children's Hospital's Eating Disorder
Clinic for Youth under the age of 18. This 1920s themed event hosted by RC Weslowski features music by local songstress Sharon Bryson and visits from literary greats. Saturday, November 15 from 7-10pm at Vinci's Caffe and Gallery, 194 West 3rd Avenue. Tickets are only $45 (or $35 if you're a member of Pandora's Collective) and includes a glass of wine and canapes. Details and to purchase tickets: bit.ly/1qr0TLw.
AUTHORFEST
Featuring Norma Charles, Robert Heidbreder and Deborah Hodges. Sponsored by The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable and the Education Library at UBC. Scarfe 100, 4:30pm-6:00pm. Free. More information at www.vclr.ca.
KAREN ARMSTRONG
The world-renowned author, founder of the international Charter for Compassion, TED Prize winner and recipient of SFU's 2012 Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue returns to Vancouver to launch her new book Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. Monday, November 17 at 7:00pm. Tickets $19.50/$11.50; can't afford a ticket, email dial@sfu.ca. The Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street. More information at sfu.ca.
JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL
The 30th annual Jewish Book Festival featuring an exciting roster of writers from across Canada, the US, and Israel, including Zeruya Shalev, Steven Galloway, Dr. Brian Goldman, Bob Bossin, and Mark Leiren-Young. November 22-27, 2014. More information at jewishbookfestival.ca.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Hot Sheet #7 - Sunday, October 26
The Hot Sheet
It may have been a rainy week down here on Granville Island, but the weather certainly didn’t dampen our spirits—our 27th annual Festival has been fantastic. It’s been a week filled with thoughtful and generous authors, insightful panel discussions and moving readings. And, as always, our Festival authors noticed our warm and engaged audiences—Vancouver’s literary community is second to none.
We have just one day left, and one last event with availability, and what better way to celebrate than with two literary titans!
Sunday, October 26
Event 86: The Fitting Finale | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/86-fitting-finale
Colm Tóibín | Jane Smiley
Two titans on the literary landscape come together in a fitting finale to this year’s Festival. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner Colm Tóibín comes to the Writers Fest with his new book Nora Webster, “a masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself.” He’ll appear alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley whose new novel Some Luck has been named one of the best books of the fall.
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
VWF Writing Contests
Today at 5:00 pm is the deadline for online submissions to the VWF Poetry & Short Story Contest for adults (http://writersfest.bc.ca/writingcontest), and the Spreading the Word Youth Writing Contest for students in Grades 8-12 from across BC (http://writersfest.bc.ca/youthwritingcontest).
November Special Events
http://writersfest.bc.ca/events
Check out our upcoming special events featuring Bruce Cockburn (November 10) http://writersfest.bc.ca/events/brucecockburn, Alan Doyle (November 13) http://writersfest.bc.ca/events/alandoyle, and Conrad Black (November 13) http://writersfest.bc.ca/events/conradblack.
Support the Vancouver Writers Fest
If you’d like to become more involved with the Vancouver Writers Fest, consider becoming a member, http://writersfest.bc.ca/get-involved/membership. For only $35 you be in the loop, get the first crack at 2015 Festival events (October 20–25), receive a discount on Festival tickets, and get the Festival program guide mailed to you. And if you would like to make a donation to help the Festival bring great writers to Vancouver and support Spreading the Word education programs for BC schools, you can do that online, http://writersfest.bc.ca/donate, or by mail, or by calling our office at 604-681-6330.
Festival Photos of the Day
http://writersfest.bc.ca/media/photos-of-the-day
It's been an amazing week. Writers from around the world have made Granville Island a book lovers paradise for thousands of readers of all ages. Thank you to our friends at CMHC Granville Island, the Granville Island Hotel, Kidsbooks and Granville Island Cultural Society for welcoming the writers and the audiences. Here are some photo highlights (all photos (c) Chris Cameron).
It may have been a rainy week down here on Granville Island, but the weather certainly didn’t dampen our spirits—our 27th annual Festival has been fantastic. It’s been a week filled with thoughtful and generous authors, insightful panel discussions and moving readings. And, as always, our Festival authors noticed our warm and engaged audiences—Vancouver’s literary community is second to none.
We have just one day left, and one last event with availability, and what better way to celebrate than with two literary titans!
Sunday, October 26
Event 86: The Fitting Finale | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/86-fitting-finale
Colm Tóibín | Jane Smiley
Two titans on the literary landscape come together in a fitting finale to this year’s Festival. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner Colm Tóibín comes to the Writers Fest with his new book Nora Webster, “a masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself.” He’ll appear alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley whose new novel Some Luck has been named one of the best books of the fall.
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
VWF Writing Contests
Today at 5:00 pm is the deadline for online submissions to the VWF Poetry & Short Story Contest for adults (http://writersfest.bc.ca/writingcontest), and the Spreading the Word Youth Writing Contest for students in Grades 8-12 from across BC (http://writersfest.bc.ca/youthwritingcontest).
November Special Events
http://writersfest.bc.ca/events
Check out our upcoming special events featuring Bruce Cockburn (November 10) http://writersfest.bc.ca/events/brucecockburn, Alan Doyle (November 13) http://writersfest.bc.ca/events/alandoyle, and Conrad Black (November 13) http://writersfest.bc.ca/events/conradblack.
Support the Vancouver Writers Fest
If you’d like to become more involved with the Vancouver Writers Fest, consider becoming a member, http://writersfest.bc.ca/get-involved/membership. For only $35 you be in the loop, get the first crack at 2015 Festival events (October 20–25), receive a discount on Festival tickets, and get the Festival program guide mailed to you. And if you would like to make a donation to help the Festival bring great writers to Vancouver and support Spreading the Word education programs for BC schools, you can do that online, http://writersfest.bc.ca/donate, or by mail, or by calling our office at 604-681-6330.
Festival Photos of the Day
http://writersfest.bc.ca/media/photos-of-the-day
It's been an amazing week. Writers from around the world have made Granville Island a book lovers paradise for thousands of readers of all ages. Thank you to our friends at CMHC Granville Island, the Granville Island Hotel, Kidsbooks and Granville Island Cultural Society for welcoming the writers and the audiences. Here are some photo highlights (all photos (c) Chris Cameron).
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Hot Sheet #6 - Saturday, October 25
The Hot Sheet
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
Saturday, October 25
Event 73: Rules of Engagement | Performance Works | 5:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/73-rules-engagement
Dionne Brand | Thomas King | Lee Maracle | Christos Tsiolkas
At what point does engagement with contemporary concerns enter your work and how does it affect the art that you’re producing? Dionne Brand, Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Christos Tsiolkas discuss their decision to address social and political issues in their work.
Event 76: The Poetry Bash | Performance Works | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/76-poetry-bash
Ken Babstock | George Elliott Clarke | Billeh Nickerson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette | Patricia Young
This year’s Bash features poets from coast to coast, some launching careers and some who’ve been earning accolades for decades. Tonight is your cross-country checkup, proof that all is thriving in the world of Canadian poetics.
Event 77: Who I Really Am | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/77-who-i-really-am
Dinaw Mengestu | Shani Mootoo | Tom Rachman | Kim Thúy
The search for identity is a complicated and quintessentially human experience. Dinaw Mengestu uses love and war to powerfully explore a third, equally dramatic theme: identity. Shani Mootoo has written a brilliant metaphor for how we reexamine and reshape stories about ourselves. Tom Rachman’s novel explores how we must choose to make our own place in the world. And Kim Thúy’s novel features a young Vietnamese woman thrown into a new world.
Sunday, October 26
Event 79: A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu | Studio 1398 | 10:00 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/79-conversation-dinaw-mengestu
With a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant under his belt and a spot on The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, Dinaw Mengestu is making a big splash in the literary world. Mengestu is a thoughtful and hard-hitting chronicler of the African diaspora, who explores “the puzzles of identity, place and human connection.”
Event 80: The Life and Times | Waterfront Theatre | 10:30 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/80-life-and-times
Emma Donoghue | David Homel | Jane Smiley
History comes to life with three authors whose rich narratives transform dusty dates into riveting stories. Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music brings to steamy life the unsolved 1876 murder of a pistol-packing crossdresser. David Homel’s The Fledglings careens between past and present to tell the story of three generations of family. And Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s Some Luck tells a multi-generational saga over three transformative decades in America.
Event 86: The Fitting Finale | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/86-fitting-finale
Colm Tóibín | Jane Smiley
Two titans on the literary landscape come together in a fitting finale to this year’s Festival. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner Colm Tóibín comes to the Writers Fest with his new book Nora Webster, “a masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself.” He’ll appear alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley whose new novel Some Luck has been named one of the best books of the fall.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
Saturday, October 25
Event 73: Rules of Engagement | Performance Works | 5:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/73-rules-engagement
Dionne Brand | Thomas King | Lee Maracle | Christos Tsiolkas
At what point does engagement with contemporary concerns enter your work and how does it affect the art that you’re producing? Dionne Brand, Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Christos Tsiolkas discuss their decision to address social and political issues in their work.
Event 76: The Poetry Bash | Performance Works | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/76-poetry-bash
Ken Babstock | George Elliott Clarke | Billeh Nickerson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette | Patricia Young
This year’s Bash features poets from coast to coast, some launching careers and some who’ve been earning accolades for decades. Tonight is your cross-country checkup, proof that all is thriving in the world of Canadian poetics.
Event 77: Who I Really Am | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/77-who-i-really-am
Dinaw Mengestu | Shani Mootoo | Tom Rachman | Kim Thúy
The search for identity is a complicated and quintessentially human experience. Dinaw Mengestu uses love and war to powerfully explore a third, equally dramatic theme: identity. Shani Mootoo has written a brilliant metaphor for how we reexamine and reshape stories about ourselves. Tom Rachman’s novel explores how we must choose to make our own place in the world. And Kim Thúy’s novel features a young Vietnamese woman thrown into a new world.
Sunday, October 26
Event 79: A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu | Studio 1398 | 10:00 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/79-conversation-dinaw-mengestu
With a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant under his belt and a spot on The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, Dinaw Mengestu is making a big splash in the literary world. Mengestu is a thoughtful and hard-hitting chronicler of the African diaspora, who explores “the puzzles of identity, place and human connection.”
Event 80: The Life and Times | Waterfront Theatre | 10:30 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/80-life-and-times
Emma Donoghue | David Homel | Jane Smiley
History comes to life with three authors whose rich narratives transform dusty dates into riveting stories. Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music brings to steamy life the unsolved 1876 murder of a pistol-packing crossdresser. David Homel’s The Fledglings careens between past and present to tell the story of three generations of family. And Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s Some Luck tells a multi-generational saga over three transformative decades in America.
Event 86: The Fitting Finale | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/86-fitting-finale
Colm Tóibín | Jane Smiley
Two titans on the literary landscape come together in a fitting finale to this year’s Festival. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner Colm Tóibín comes to the Writers Fest with his new book Nora Webster, “a masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself.” He’ll appear alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley whose new novel Some Luck has been named one of the best books of the fall.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Friday, October 24, 2014
The Hot Sheet #5 - Friday, October 24
The Hot Sheet
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Cancellation: Justin Trudeau in conversation with Stephen Quinn
Due to Wednesdays’s tragic events in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s appearance in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest has been cancelled.
We were informed this morning by his publisher, HarperCollinsCanada, that Trudeau will no longer be able to travel to Vancouver this week and that all efforts would be made to reschedule the event in future.
Trudeau was to talk with the CBC host Stephen Quinn at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church this evening about his new memoir, which was released Monday.
We have taken the event off sale and are notifying patrons about refunding their ticket purchases.
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
Friday, October 24
Event 58: Familiar Haunts | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Jacqueline Baker | Eric McCormack | Russell Wangersky
Ready for some hair-raising tales from three frightfully good Canadian writers? Jacqueline Baker, whose compelling, creepy novel features the frightening H.P. Lovecraft. Eric McCormack’s masterpiece of literary Gothicism stars a man haunted by his past. And Russell Wangersky’s dark psychological thriller spotlights a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave behind.
Saturday, October 25
Event 64: Probables and Impossibles | Performance Works | 10:30 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/64-probables-and-impossibles
Sebastien de Castell | A.M. Dellamonica | William Gibson
A morning of swashbuckling, fantastical lands and imaginary futures! The father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction William Gibson talks about his latest, a “sci-fi turducken,” and fantasy writers A.M. Dellamonica and Sebastien de Castell will take you into their “sumptuously detailed” worlds.
Event 73: Rules of Engagement | Performance Works | 5:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/73-rules-engagement
Dionne Brand | Thomas King | Lee Maracle | Christos Tsiolkas
At what point does engagement with contemporary concerns enter your work and how does it affect the art that you’re producing? Dionne Brand, Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Christos Tsiolkas discuss their decision to address social and political issues in their work.
Event 76: The Poetry Bash | Performance Works | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/76-poetry-bash
Ken Babstock | George Elliott Clarke | Billeh Nickerson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette | Patricia Young
This year’s Bash features poets from coast to coast, some launching careers and some who’ve been earning accolades for decades. Tonight is your cross-country checkup, proof that all is thriving in the world of Canadian poetics.
Event 77: Who I Really Am | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/77-who-i-really-am
Dinaw Mengestu | Shani Mooto | Tom Rachman | Kim Thúy
The search for identity is a complicated and quintessentially human experience. Dinaw Mengestu uses love and war to powerfully explore a third, equally dramatic theme: identity. Shani Mooto has written a brilliant metaphor for how we reexamine and reshape stories about ourselves. Tom Rachman’s novel explores how we must choose to make our own place in the world. And Kim Thúy’s novel features a young Vietnamese woman thrown into a new world.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Cancellation: Justin Trudeau in conversation with Stephen Quinn
Due to Wednesdays’s tragic events in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s appearance in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest has been cancelled.
We were informed this morning by his publisher, HarperCollinsCanada, that Trudeau will no longer be able to travel to Vancouver this week and that all efforts would be made to reschedule the event in future.
Trudeau was to talk with the CBC host Stephen Quinn at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church this evening about his new memoir, which was released Monday.
We have taken the event off sale and are notifying patrons about refunding their ticket purchases.
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
Friday, October 24
Event 58: Familiar Haunts | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Jacqueline Baker | Eric McCormack | Russell Wangersky
Ready for some hair-raising tales from three frightfully good Canadian writers? Jacqueline Baker, whose compelling, creepy novel features the frightening H.P. Lovecraft. Eric McCormack’s masterpiece of literary Gothicism stars a man haunted by his past. And Russell Wangersky’s dark psychological thriller spotlights a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave behind.
Saturday, October 25
Event 64: Probables and Impossibles | Performance Works | 10:30 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/64-probables-and-impossibles
Sebastien de Castell | A.M. Dellamonica | William Gibson
A morning of swashbuckling, fantastical lands and imaginary futures! The father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction William Gibson talks about his latest, a “sci-fi turducken,” and fantasy writers A.M. Dellamonica and Sebastien de Castell will take you into their “sumptuously detailed” worlds.
Event 73: Rules of Engagement | Performance Works | 5:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/73-rules-engagement
Dionne Brand | Thomas King | Lee Maracle | Christos Tsiolkas
At what point does engagement with contemporary concerns enter your work and how does it affect the art that you’re producing? Dionne Brand, Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Christos Tsiolkas discuss their decision to address social and political issues in their work.
Event 76: The Poetry Bash | Performance Works | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/76-poetry-bash
Ken Babstock | George Elliott Clarke | Billeh Nickerson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette | Patricia Young
This year’s Bash features poets from coast to coast, some launching careers and some who’ve been earning accolades for decades. Tonight is your cross-country checkup, proof that all is thriving in the world of Canadian poetics.
Event 77: Who I Really Am | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/77-who-i-really-am
Dinaw Mengestu | Shani Mooto | Tom Rachman | Kim Thúy
The search for identity is a complicated and quintessentially human experience. Dinaw Mengestu uses love and war to powerfully explore a third, equally dramatic theme: identity. Shani Mooto has written a brilliant metaphor for how we reexamine and reshape stories about ourselves. Tom Rachman’s novel explores how we must choose to make our own place in the world. And Kim Thúy’s novel features a young Vietnamese woman thrown into a new world.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The Hot Sheet #4 - Thursday, October 23
The Hot Sheet
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Cancellation: Justin Trudeau in conversation with Stephen Quinn
Due to yesterday’s tragic events in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s appearance in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest has been cancelled.
We were informed this morning by his publisher, HarperCollinsCanada, that Trudeau will no longer be able to travel to Vancouver this week and that all efforts would be made to reschedule the event in future.
Trudeau was to talk with the CBC host Stephen Quinn at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church on Friday, October 24, about his new memoir, which was released Monday.
We have taken the event off sale and are notifying patrons about refunding their ticket purchases.
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
Thursday, October 23
Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch
The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.
Event 45: Odd Jobs | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Ian Hamilton | Lee Henderson | Anne Kennedy
Through fiction, we get a chance to meet characters who wouldn’t normally cross our paths. Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee series stars a stylish, young forensic accountant, Lee Henderson’s protagonist is a cartoonist who lives in the brash optimism of the 1980s and Anne Kennedy’s novel features a seamstress who repairs torn garments, and becomes entangled in the truths and lies behind each rip.
Event 46: The Hook | Performance Works | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/46-hook
Aislinn Hunter | Eric McCormack | Sarah Waters | Ian Weir
Suspense, rollicking action and magic realism—hooking the reader is the focus of tonight’s discussion. Join Aislinn Hunter, who brings the past to life, Eric McCormack, “a spellbinder,” Sarah Waters, master of psychological tension, and Ian Weir, with his “uncanny ear for the earthy slang of Regency London.”
Event 47: Truth and Fiction | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/47-truth-and-fiction
Jacqueline Baker | Damon Galgut | Steven Galloway
The complexities of fictionalizing the lives of real people are up for discussion this evening. Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist is based on the life of Houdini. Damon Galgut based his novel on the life of E.M. Forster over the 12 years that he was writing A Passage to India. And Jacqueline Baker’s novel is a haunting portrait of America’s first horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.
Friday, October 24
Event 51: Pure Poetry | Waterfront Theatre | 10:00 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/51-pure-poetry
Kris Demeanor | Eve Joseph | Anne Kennedy | Christopher Levenson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette
Confessional, lyric, lavish and spare, the poets reading this morning are as varied as the tools of expression at their disposal. This is an occasion to sit back and savour every perfectly place word, as well as revel in its delivery.
Event 58: Familiar Haunts | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Jacqueline Baker | Eric McCormack | Russell Wangersky
Ready for some hair-raising tales from three frightfully good Canadian writers? Jacqueline Baker, whose compelling, creepy novel features the frightening H.P. Lovecraft. Eric McCormack’s masterpiece of literary Gothicism stars a man haunted by his past. And Russell Wangersky’s dark psychological thriller spotlights a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave behind.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Cancellation: Justin Trudeau in conversation with Stephen Quinn
Due to yesterday’s tragic events in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s appearance in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest has been cancelled.
We were informed this morning by his publisher, HarperCollinsCanada, that Trudeau will no longer be able to travel to Vancouver this week and that all efforts would be made to reschedule the event in future.
Trudeau was to talk with the CBC host Stephen Quinn at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church on Friday, October 24, about his new memoir, which was released Monday.
We have taken the event off sale and are notifying patrons about refunding their ticket purchases.
#Discovery Contest
Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.
Thursday, October 23
Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch
The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.
Event 45: Odd Jobs | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Ian Hamilton | Lee Henderson | Anne Kennedy
Through fiction, we get a chance to meet characters who wouldn’t normally cross our paths. Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee series stars a stylish, young forensic accountant, Lee Henderson’s protagonist is a cartoonist who lives in the brash optimism of the 1980s and Anne Kennedy’s novel features a seamstress who repairs torn garments, and becomes entangled in the truths and lies behind each rip.
Event 46: The Hook | Performance Works | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/46-hook
Aislinn Hunter | Eric McCormack | Sarah Waters | Ian Weir
Suspense, rollicking action and magic realism—hooking the reader is the focus of tonight’s discussion. Join Aislinn Hunter, who brings the past to life, Eric McCormack, “a spellbinder,” Sarah Waters, master of psychological tension, and Ian Weir, with his “uncanny ear for the earthy slang of Regency London.”
Event 47: Truth and Fiction | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/47-truth-and-fiction
Jacqueline Baker | Damon Galgut | Steven Galloway
The complexities of fictionalizing the lives of real people are up for discussion this evening. Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist is based on the life of Houdini. Damon Galgut based his novel on the life of E.M. Forster over the 12 years that he was writing A Passage to India. And Jacqueline Baker’s novel is a haunting portrait of America’s first horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.
Friday, October 24
Event 51: Pure Poetry | Waterfront Theatre | 10:00 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/51-pure-poetry
Kris Demeanor | Eve Joseph | Anne Kennedy | Christopher Levenson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette
Confessional, lyric, lavish and spare, the poets reading this morning are as varied as the tools of expression at their disposal. This is an occasion to sit back and savour every perfectly place word, as well as revel in its delivery.
Event 58: Familiar Haunts | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Jacqueline Baker | Eric McCormack | Russell Wangersky
Ready for some hair-raising tales from three frightfully good Canadian writers? Jacqueline Baker, whose compelling, creepy novel features the frightening H.P. Lovecraft. Eric McCormack’s masterpiece of literary Gothicism stars a man haunted by his past. And Russell Wangersky’s dark psychological thriller spotlights a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave behind.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Hot Sheet #3 - Wednesday, October 22
The Hot Sheet
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Wednesday, October 22
Event 25: A Community of Characters | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/25-community-characters
Maylis de Kerangal | Cristina Henríquez | Kate Pullinger
Cristina Henríquez portrays a family of Hispanic immigrants struggling with life in America. The lives of Maylis de Kerangal’s 12 characters become interconnected as they work to build a bridge, and Kate Pullinger’s novel reveals a family that is growing apart, until an incredible event pulls them back together.
Event 26: The Real Deal | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/26-real-deal
Marie Lu | Robert Paul Weston
Young, talented and brimming with creativity, Marie Lu and Robert Paul Weston have made buzz-worthy debuts. The bestselling author of the Legend series, Lu is back with The Young Elites. And Weston mixes music and mystery to tell the age old story of growing up.
Event 29: An Evening with James Ellroy | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/29-evening-james-ellroy
Best known for his LA Quartet series, which includes The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy has returned to the lives of some of his best-known characters with his new novel Perfidia. Spend an evening with this master of noir, who writes crime fiction on an “epic, transcendental scale.”
Thursday, October 23
Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch
The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.
Event 46: The Hook | Performance Works | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/46-hook
Aislinn Hunter | Eric McCormack | Sarah Waters | Ian Weir
Suspense, rollicking action and magic realism—hooking the reader is the focus of tonight’s discussion. Join Aislinn Hunter, who brings the past to life, Eric McCormack, “a spellbinder,” Sarah Waters, master of psychological tension, and Ian Weir, with his “uncanny ear for the earthy slang of Regency London.”
Event 47: Truth and Fiction | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/47-truth-and-fiction
Jacqueline Baker | Damon Galgut | Steven Galloway
The complexities of fictionalizing the lives of real people are up for discussion this evening. Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist is based on the life of Houdini. Damon Galgut based his novel on the life of E.M. Forster over the 12 years that he was writing A Passage to India. And Jacqueline Baker’s novel is a haunting portrait of America’s first horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Wednesday, October 22
Event 25: A Community of Characters | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/25-community-characters
Maylis de Kerangal | Cristina Henríquez | Kate Pullinger
Cristina Henríquez portrays a family of Hispanic immigrants struggling with life in America. The lives of Maylis de Kerangal’s 12 characters become interconnected as they work to build a bridge, and Kate Pullinger’s novel reveals a family that is growing apart, until an incredible event pulls them back together.
Event 26: The Real Deal | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/26-real-deal
Marie Lu | Robert Paul Weston
Young, talented and brimming with creativity, Marie Lu and Robert Paul Weston have made buzz-worthy debuts. The bestselling author of the Legend series, Lu is back with The Young Elites. And Weston mixes music and mystery to tell the age old story of growing up.
Event 29: An Evening with James Ellroy | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/29-evening-james-ellroy
Best known for his LA Quartet series, which includes The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy has returned to the lives of some of his best-known characters with his new novel Perfidia. Spend an evening with this master of noir, who writes crime fiction on an “epic, transcendental scale.”
Thursday, October 23
Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch
The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.
Event 46: The Hook | Performance Works | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/46-hook
Aislinn Hunter | Eric McCormack | Sarah Waters | Ian Weir
Suspense, rollicking action and magic realism—hooking the reader is the focus of tonight’s discussion. Join Aislinn Hunter, who brings the past to life, Eric McCormack, “a spellbinder,” Sarah Waters, master of psychological tension, and Ian Weir, with his “uncanny ear for the earthy slang of Regency London.”
Event 47: Truth and Fiction | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/47-truth-and-fiction
Jacqueline Baker | Damon Galgut | Steven Galloway
The complexities of fictionalizing the lives of real people are up for discussion this evening. Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist is based on the life of Houdini. Damon Galgut based his novel on the life of E.M. Forster over the 12 years that he was writing A Passage to India. And Jacqueline Baker’s novel is a haunting portrait of America’s first horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Hot Sheet #2 - Tuesday, October 21
The Hot Sheet
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Tuesday, October 21
Event 9: China: The Challenge of Democracy | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/9-china-challenge-democracy
Paul Evans | Charles Foran | Madeleine Thien
A roundtable of articulate and insightful authors will touch on the significant ideas in Evan Osnos’ Age of Ambition, as well as the tumultuous events taking place in Hong Kong. Join novelists Charles Foran and Madeleine Thien, and Dr. Paul Evans, Director of the Institute for Asian Research at UBC.
Event 10: An Intimate Evening with Eimear McBride | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/10-intimate-evening-eimear-mcbride
Meet one of Ireland’s newest and most innovative voices. Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half Formed Thing won the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and has been dubbed “a future classic” by The New York Times.
Event 11: Waking from the American Dream | Improv Centre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/11-waking-american-dream
Joshua Ferris | Cristina Henríquez | Matthew Thomas
Three exciting voices from a new generation of American writers: Joshua Ferris, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Cristina Henríquez, “one of fiction’s new luminaries,” and Matthew Thomas, whose debut novel sparked a bidding war and sold for $1 million. The three talk to Granta editor John Freeman.
Wednesday, October 22
Event 25: A Community of Characters | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/25-community-characters
Maylis de Kerangal | Cristina Henríquez | Kate Pullinger
Cristina Henríquez portrays a family of Hispanic immigrants struggling with life in America. The lives of Maylis de Kerangal’s 12 characters become interconnected as they work to build a bridge, and Kate Pullinger’s novel reveals a family that is growing apart, until an incredible event pulls them back together.
Event 26: The Real Deal | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/26-real-deal
Marie Lu | Robert Paul Weston
Young, talented and brimming with creativity, Marie Lu and Robert Paul Weston have made buzz-worthy debuts. The bestselling author of the Legend series, Lu is back with The Young Elites. And Weston mixes music and mystery to tell the age old story of growing up.
Event 29: An Evening with James Ellroy | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/29-evening-james-ellroy
Best known for his LA Quartet series, which includes The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy has returned to the lives of some of his best-known characters with his new novel Perfidia. Spend an evening with this master of noir, who writes crime fiction on an “epic, transcendental scale.”
Thursday, October 23
Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch
The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!
Tuesday, October 21
Event 9: China: The Challenge of Democracy | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/9-china-challenge-democracy
Paul Evans | Charles Foran | Madeleine Thien
A roundtable of articulate and insightful authors will touch on the significant ideas in Evan Osnos’ Age of Ambition, as well as the tumultuous events taking place in Hong Kong. Join novelists Charles Foran and Madeleine Thien, and Dr. Paul Evans, Director of the Institute for Asian Research at UBC.
Event 10: An Intimate Evening with Eimear McBride | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/10-intimate-evening-eimear-mcbride
Meet one of Ireland’s newest and most innovative voices. Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half Formed Thing won the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and has been dubbed “a future classic” by The New York Times.
Event 11: Waking from the American Dream | Improv Centre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/11-waking-american-dream
Joshua Ferris | Cristina Henríquez | Matthew Thomas
Three exciting voices from a new generation of American writers: Joshua Ferris, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Cristina Henríquez, “one of fiction’s new luminaries,” and Matthew Thomas, whose debut novel sparked a bidding war and sold for $1 million. The three talk to Granta editor John Freeman.
Wednesday, October 22
Event 25: A Community of Characters | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/25-community-characters
Maylis de Kerangal | Cristina Henríquez | Kate Pullinger
Cristina Henríquez portrays a family of Hispanic immigrants struggling with life in America. The lives of Maylis de Kerangal’s 12 characters become interconnected as they work to build a bridge, and Kate Pullinger’s novel reveals a family that is growing apart, until an incredible event pulls them back together.
Event 26: The Real Deal | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/26-real-deal
Marie Lu | Robert Paul Weston
Young, talented and brimming with creativity, Marie Lu and Robert Paul Weston have made buzz-worthy debuts. The bestselling author of the Legend series, Lu is back with The Young Elites. And Weston mixes music and mystery to tell the age old story of growing up.
Event 29: An Evening with James Ellroy | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/29-evening-james-ellroy
Best known for his LA Quartet series, which includes The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy has returned to the lives of some of his best-known characters with his new novel Perfidia. Spend an evening with this master of noir, who writes crime fiction on an “epic, transcendental scale.”
Thursday, October 23
Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch
The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.
Purchase Festival Tickets
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
Festival Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouvertix.com | 604-629-8849
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