David Homel in Conversation with Dragan Tororovic

31 January 2024

Watch David Homel with Dragan Todorovic: Conversation and public reading. Homel is an American Canadian writer and translator, with multiple awards for his novels and his translations. The interview covers his whole career in writing. Some of the themes are crypto-languages, translation as a way of improving the originals, and novel as a result of shortage of some kind.

Watch the conversation here

How Did I Get Here? A Writer's Education

David Homel

September 2023

$19.95 | ISBN: 9781773901404

David Homel is the award-winning author of nine novels and five works of fiction for younger readers, the latter co-authored with Marie-Louise Gay. In 2021, he ventured into the field of the personal essay with the memoir Lunging into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward (LLP 2021), which––part medical memoir and part speculation about the love life of older women and men––led Homel to return to the slippery field of self-discovery and the remodeling of the past.

[Photo: Marina Vulicevic]

Q&A: Frédérick Lavoie

Leila Marshy's Q&A with Montreal author and journalist Frédérick Lavoie, author of For Want of a Fir Tree: Ukraine Undone

Space for a Pen, part II, by Kenneth Radu

I think of Virginia Woolf’s essay and cabin, Vita Sackville-West’s tower, and Carlyle’s study, their necessary, self-imposed isolation, and wonder how Jane Austen managed to produce six scintillating novels, at least two of which are masterpieces, in the midst of the busy domesticity of a small house where servants and family bumped against each other crossing a threshold.

Vita Sackville-West's Tower and White Garden at Sissinghurst

A Paris Salon, by Linda Leith

The translation of this vivid scene is by Helen Constantine, but who wrote the original?

Women, Words, and Leadership

On 11 April, 2016, Linda Leith participated in TD Blue Met Talks: Femmes & leadership | Women & Leadership during the Opening Cocktail of the 18th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival.

Blue Met had invited several women of influence to speak about the power of words, women in leadership and how books have inspired and changed them and their careers. The other participants were Louise-Ann Maziak, Marie-Josée Bédard, Suzanne Fortier, and Marie Giguère.