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Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules

Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules

          
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About the Book

Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada.

In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir the mind and heart. By turns inspiring, provocative, witty, and compelling, these diverse and original pieces explore home, exile, and the search for a place to belong; community, creativity, celebrity, and the many forms power can take.

Among the pieces in the anthology: Diana Athill and Alice Munro discuss the consequences of writing about other people; Gord Downie meditates on what it means to be a songwriter by considering one of his own songwriting heroes; Guy Gavriel Kay reflects on how his relationship with his own readers continues to change; Elizabeth Hay searches for inspiration in the fallow period between books; Rawi Hage meditates on writing rooted in the universal experience of exile; Pasha Malla and Moez Surani present a funny and confounding list of "rules for writers" solicited from non-writers; Heather O'Neill tells the story of an illiterate and underage wannabe gangster in mid-century Montreal; Michael Winter pieces together court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources to take us into the dark heart of a real-life Newfoundland crime story.

Proceeds from this volume will go to PEN Canada in support of its vital work in defence of freedom of expression and on behalf of writers around the world who have been silenced.

Finding the Words Contributors List:
Diana Athill
Tash Aw
David Bezmozgis
Joseph Boyden
David Chariandy
Denise Chong
Karen Connelly
Alain de Botton
Emma Donoghue
Gord Downie
Marina Endicott
Stacey May Fowles
Rawi Hage
Elizabeth Hay
Steven Heighton
Lee Henderson
Guy Gavriel Kay
Mark Kingwell
Martha Kuwee Kumsa
Annabel Lyon
Linden MacIntyre
Pasha Malla
Lisa Moore
Alice Munro
Stephanie Nolen
Heather O'Neill
Richard Poplak
Moez Surani
Miguel Syjuco
Madeleine Thien
Michael Winter
With cover design and illustration by Seth

www.pencanada.ca


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780771013690
  • Publisher: Emblem Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Emblem Editions
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 418 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0771013698
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 221 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules
  • Width: 137 mm


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