- 2 PM
- October 30, 2011
- Best Western Inn on the Bay
- Owen Sound
- Cost: $10
Location information
Best Western Inn on the Bay
1800 2nd Ave East
Owen Sound N4K 5R1
Join us for readings by Clarke Blaise, Wayne Johnston, Madeleine Thien and Meg Wolitzer. Host: TVO Parents’ Cheryl Jackson
Clarke Blaise presents his new collection of Indo-American Canterbury Tales, The Meagre Tarmac, which explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power.
Taking place in St. John’s, Princeton and North Carolina at the end of the 19th century, Wayne Johnston’s A World Elsewhere, is a sweeping tale that questions the loyalties of friends, family and the heart.
Set in both Montreal and Cambodia, Madeleine Thien’s latest, Dogs at the Perimeter, is a beautifully realized and deeply affecting novel about the multiple lives we carry within ourselves.
Meg Wolitzer’s latest, The Uncoupling, is a Greek drama-inspired novel about a tight-knit group of men and women in a high school community who are forced to look at their shared history and at their sexual selves in a new light.
Participants
Clark Blaise
Clark Blaise (Canada/USA) is the author of 20 books of fiction and non-fiction. A longtime advocate for the literary arts in North America, he has taught writing and literature at many institutions across the United States. Internationally recognized for his [...]
Cheryl Jackson - Host
Cheryl Jackson (Canada) is host of TVOParents.com, a website geared to parents to help them help their kids succeed in school and life. She has a decade of experience in television and radio production and won the Canadian Investigative Journalism [...]
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston (Canada) was born and raised in Newfoundland. Once a reporter for the St. John’s Daily News, Johnston eventually earned an MA in Creative Writing. His bestselling novels include The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and [...]
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien (Canada) is the author of two previous books of fiction, a collection of stories, and Certainty, a novel. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications and her work has been translated into more than 16 languages. In 2010, she received [...]
Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer (USA) is the author of eight previous novels, including The Ten-Year Nap, The Position and The Wife. Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Wolitzer’s latest, The Uncoupling, is a [...]