Ayelet Tsabari's Blog, page 9
October 9, 2013
October 4, 2013
On Meeting Jhumpa Lahiri
I went to see Jhumpa Lahiri on Sunday at a free event put up by The Toronto Library. I’ve been a Lahiri fan since I read her first book,
The Interpreter of Maladies
. It was one of the first books I read in English. I bought it years ago at the Chapters on Robson in Vancouver, and I loved it. I remember thinking that maybe one day I’ll get back to writing short fiction. That maybe one day I’ll publish a book. I don’t know if it had even occurred to me to write in English at that point.It’s not...
September 25, 2013
September 18, 2013
Wordless Wednesday: 5
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September 14, 2013
Writing Workshop in Vancouver: Wish You Were Here
Trout Lake
I am running a writing workshop, ‘Wish You Were Here: Writing about Place‘, in Vancouver this fall. I am very excited about it. It will take place at the lovely Trout Lake Community Centre (one of my favourite spots in East Vancouver!)
Here’s more information from the flyer:
Evoking a profound sense of “being there” in writing is one of the most important elements of prose, and a way of immersing the reader in what John Gardner called “the fictional dream”. Mastery of place involves m...
September 12, 2013
The Amber Archives
I was invited to take part in a unique project this year. The Amber Archives is anannual participatory art project operated by artist John Paul Robinson. Artists of every discipline submit works to be included in the archive, which John thenreproduces on ceramic disks encased in pine resin and sealed in Amber Time Capsules. Yes, you heard right. Time capsules. He calls it the Amber Archives, because it imitatesthe process by which tree resin is fossilized into amber. As written on thewebsite,...
September 11, 2013
Wordless Wednesday: 4
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September 9, 2013
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 are already 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 about the festival, just because.
The Victoria Writers’ Festival has also started their ticket sale. I’m doing...
