Susan Swan's Blog, page 17
January 12, 2012
More thoughts and articles on refugee journalists…
I can't seem to shake the chills thinking about the horrific experience of refugee Eritrean journalist Aaron Berhane. There are so many more like him still in jail, held unjustly by their governments. As I mentioned in my blog on Aaron, I wrote a letter to Dawit Habtemichael, another Eritrean journalist being held by the [...]
"An American woman novelist who wrote a book about a family would never be called 'America's greatest living writer'" … my recap on Saturday's IFOA event.
On Saturday, I moderated an International Festival of Authors round table on the family dynamic with three US and Canadian novelists. There were four authors at the round table, including myself: US writer Jennifer Haigh, whose novel Faith describes what happens to the Irish Catholic MGanns when the priest in their family is accused of [...]
Getting ready for the Giller
Canvassing Friends on What to Wear – this is not a rhetorical question Getting ready for this year's Giller Prize ceremony I am a bit flummoxed on what to wear. Should I break with protocol and wear Pat McDonagh's knock off of a World War One flying suit? The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, wore [...]
Are great writers egomaniacs?
Still mulling over a remark about great writers being egomaniacs at the IOFA Ontario discussion I was a part of on Thursday Nov 3 in Midland. Authors Madelaine Thien and Helen Humphreys discussed their recent novels Dogs at the Perimeter and The Reinvention of Love. Respectively. I'm still thinking about Helen's claim that great [...]
You can go home again
I made my first faux pas when I told Midland, Ont., librarian Bill Molesworth that I'd come to town to take the literary temperature in the hinterlands. "Hinterlands?" His eyebrows shot up. "I'll try not to hold that against you." Molesworth, CEO of the Midland Public Library, is part of IFOA Ontario (or Lit On [...]
Why Casanova?
For the Sarnia Book Club Marms: I have posted this blog this week for the Sarnia Book Club Marms who are celebrating What Casanova Told Me at their November 25 book club event. Click the multi media section on the home page of my blog for the song What Casanova Told Me by Alberta folksinger [...]
Make Casanova Your Book Club Valentine Are you interested...
Make Casanova Your Book Club Valentine Are you interested in finding out more about Casanova, the serial seducer and feminist who once famously said: I have never made love to a woman whose language I don't speak because I like to enjoy myself in all my senses at once. If you are, make What Casanova [...]
