Round Table: Halfdan W. Freihow, Larry Gaudet, Janette Turner Hospital

Halfdan W. Freihow grew up in Mexico, Norway, Spain and Belgium and has worked as a publisher, reporter, translator and literary critic. He presents Dear Gabriel, a deeply moving confessional, written in the form of a letter from a father to his young autistic son.

Janet Turner Hospital’s previous novel Due Preparations for the Plague, published in 2003, was a New York Times Notable Book. Hospital teaches at the University of South Carolina as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Vit Wagner is the publishing reporter for the Toronto Star. During his 20 years at the newspaper, he has also covered the theatre and popular