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Reviews,Interviews and Events (and Why I Love Book Bloggers)

Tickets for the Vancouver International Writers Festival have gone on sale today, and apparently, some events have already been sold out! Here’s the links to my two events, Faces in the Conflict , with Nadeem Aslam , Michael Winter , and D.W. Wilson (buy it here ) and Out of Place , with Xiaolu Guo and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (buy it here).

More about how to buy tickets here.

And here is a short video of the festival, just because.

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The Victoria Writers’ Festival has also started their ticket sale. I’m doi...

Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday: 3

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The Best Place on Earth is Going Places: Fall Events

I love summer. It is my favourite season. In my early twenties I chased sunshine and managed to live in perpetual summer for four years. I spent much of that time on beaches, dressed in sarongs and bikini tops, shells braided into my hair, swinging on hammocks and sleeping in huts on the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Med. I arrived in Vancouver at the end of this four-year stretch, on the first day of summer of all days. I brought with me a suitcase overflowing with tie-dye...

Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday: 2

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Wordless Wednesday

Okay, just a few words first.

I recently discovered Wordless Wednesday. On Wednesdays, bloggers around the world post an untitled photo on their blog. No captions. No words. Because, you know, a photo is worth a thousand.

So since this is my first time, here are a few more words by Susan Sontag, from her book On Photography:

“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all phot...

Wordless Wednesday: 1

Okay, just a few words first.

I recently discovered Wordless Wednesday. On Wednesdays, bloggers around the world post an untitled photo on their blog. No captions. No words. Because, you know, a photo is worth a thousand.

So since this is my first time, here are a few more words by Susan Sontag, from her book On Photography:

“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all phot...

Signing Books at Chapters Indigo

I had fun signing books at Chapters Indigo in Eaton Centre Toronto.

Look at this great company I’m keeping!

With Rachel, the lovely manager.

Unravel the Tangle

My piece, “Unravel the Tangle,” which I wrote about my father and his poetry, was published in Room Magazine this month. After the essay about my mom (“Yemeni Soup and Other Recipes,” published in Grain ) garnered so much attention last month, I was pleased to see the tribute to my father finally in print. I had wanted to write about my father for years, but wasn’t sure how. It felt too big, too raw, too difficult, even thirty years after his death.

The title of the piece, Unravel the Tangle, i...