Susan Swan's Blog, page 2
August 26, 2024
Some Terrible Men Are Ruining Our World
Some terrible men are ruining our world. Terrible, terrible men who mutilate the bodies of women and blow up people who live in far away cities on the pretext that they have a right to strike back. Strike back? The terrible men are always striking something. They don’t care who gets hurt as long as …
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June 30, 2023
Appointment to the Order of Canada
Thanks to the Governor General of Canada and the Carol Shields Prize for celebrating me today. Congratulations to my fellow recipients. Toronto, ON — Susan Swan, award-winning author, journalist and professor, has been appointed as Member of the Order of Canada by Governor General Mary Simon. Established in 1967, the Order of Canada is one …
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June 12, 2023
Why Start a New Literary Prize for Women Writers?
When my friend Janice Zawerbny asked me to help her start a literary prize for women, I had no idea what I was signing up for. Zawerbny is a Toronto editor and she was upset by the grim statistics about women’s writing that I brought to a Vancouver Writers Fest panel in 2012. Like people …
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December 13, 2019
Why don’t more Canadians know about Constance Beresford-Howe?
When you think of the giants in Canadian literature, chances are you think of writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro or Margaret Atwood. Few readers these days remember Constance Beresford-Howe, who wrote ground-breaking novels about the struggle... Read More
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Meet The Lizard Man
No matter what he says, he believes what he says when he says it An Unpublished Short Story from The Dead Celebrities Club. Originally Published in Now Magazine, November 26, 2019. He was called lizard man at... Read More
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September 2, 2019
Literary Review Of Canada: Double Or Nothing
The Literary Review of Canada wrote an article about my new novel, The Dead Celebrities Club, and it’s deconstruction of the marketed, monetary value first language and society we have developed in the 21st century. Examining the way... Read More
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May 6, 2019
Writers & Fraudsters: We Dream Big and We Believe Our Lies
Post Media Columnist Praises The Dead Celebrities Club: To read an excerpt from the novel, Click Here.
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April 22, 2019
Read An Excerpt
Off to Jail Excerpt: The Dead Celebrities Club Anxiously, I follow the C.O. into a room the size of my walk-in closet in the Receiving and Discharging Building. I have purposefully worn an old, double-breasted suit, and when... Read More
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An Excerpt from The Dead Celebrities Club
Off to Jail Excerpt: The Dead Celebrities Club Anxiously, I follow the C.O. into a room the size of my walk-in closet in the Receiving and Discharging Building. I have purposefully worn an old, double-breasted suit, and... Read More
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April 7, 2019
Can someone like Dale Paul be forgiven?
In Susan Swan’s new novel, The Dead Celebrities Club, Dale Paul isn’t just looking for legal redemption but also forgiveness from those he claims to love. So we asked – Can someone convicted of financial crimes be redeemed?... Read More
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