Creation is just one part of the life of a book. This round table discusses what happens when the book leaves home and how the writer deals with the empty nest syndrome.
Richard Crouse moderates this round table discussion with Eden Robinson, Timothy Taylor, Tom McCarthy, Caroline Adderson.
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Caroline Adderson is the author of two internationally published novels, two collections of short stories, as well as several books for young people. A two time Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and three-time CBC Literary Award winner, she has also received nominations for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Award, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. After a lost friend accused of terrorism is released from 20 years in prison, Jane recollects how her life took a very different course in Adderson’s new novel, The Sky is Falling.
Richard Crouse is the host of Richard Crouse's Movie Show on the Independent Film Channel and Richard Crouse at the Movies on CFRB NewsTalk 1010 in Toronto. He is the regular film critic for CTV's Canada AM and is also the author of six books on pop culture history, including The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and Reel Winners. From 1998 to 2008 Crouse was the host of the television show Reel to Real.
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Tom McCarthy is known in the art world for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as general secretary of the International Necronautical Society, a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. He has written three novels as well as a work of literary criticism. McCarthy reads from his latest work, C. Taking place during the early years of the twentieth century, C follows a young man who eventually finds himself in a bizarre scene in an Egyptian catacomb where all of his paths and relationships converge.
Eden Robinson’s first novel, Monkey Beach, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was a Giller Prize finalist, and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Timothy Taylor’s first novel, Stanley Park, was a finalist for the Giller Prize. His new book, Story House, is a sophisticated and funny tale of two estranged brothers trying to come to terms with a lifetime of contradictions and conflicts.
