Finding the words writers on inspiration, desire, war, celebrity, exile, and breaking the rules

Bland, Jared. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780771013706 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0771013701 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (268 p.) : ports.
Publisher: Toronto : Emblem Editions, c2011.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

A story without words / Heather O'Neill -- On mediocrity, consensus, and success / Linden MacIntyre -- How to talk about Mayerthorpe / Marina Endicott -- Requiem for my grandfather, Jakov Milner, Zionist / David Bezmozgis -- Alexander / Annabel Lyon -- To tell her story / Stephanie Nolen -- Between books / Elizabeth Hay -- Lulu / Tash Aw -- Finding Jack's voice: some thoughts on children and language / Emma Donoghue -- Affricates / Richard Poplak -- The ethical code for writers, according to fifty people who are not writers / Pasha Malla and Moez Surani -- The first time / Stacey May Fowles -- On tuition row / Lee Henderson -- My character / Lisa Moore -- Photocopies of photocopies: On Bao Ninh / Madeleine Thien -- Thinly veiled / Michael Winter -- As it were: On the metaphysics ethics of fiction / Mark Kingwell -- A conversation / Diana Athill and Alice Munro -- The words for a place / David Chariandy -- Given to inspiration / Steven Heighton -- Feeling for Akkoo / Martha Kuwee Kumsa -- TMI: authors in cyberspace / Guy Gavriel Kay -- On the weight of separation and the lightness of the non-belonging / Rawi Hage -- The hurting / Joseph Boyden -- How to swim in a sea of shit / Karen Connelly -- Across the divide and back / Denise Chong -- On writing / Alain de Botton -- Let it ride / Gord Downie -- Visitation / Miguel Syjuco.