Mavis Gallant's What Is To Be Done? -- the movie!
This is when book promotion becomes an art -- in the hands of artists. Turning Mavis Gallant's play into a movie.
With me on the panel are Guy Sprung, Artistic Director of Infinitheatre and Dan Seligman, Artistic Director of POP Montreal.
Part I.
Thanks to producer Chris Paré and On Air Master Control Studio Producer Sheldon Fried for the mp3.
This is when book promotion becomes an art -- in the hands of artists. Turning Mavis Gallant's play into a movie.
Phillip Ernest is a Canadian writer with an extraordinary personal history, as even the briefest version of his bio suggests: Born in 1970, Phillip Ernest grew up in New Liskeard, Ontario. Fleeing home at fifteen, he lived on Toronto’s skid row until he was twenty-eight. He learned Sanskrit from the book Teach Yourself Sanskrit, and later earned a BA in South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Sanskrit from Cambridge University. The Vetala (LLP, 2018) is his first novel. This is Part I of a two-part interview. Part II is here.
Bharati Mukherjee’s new novel represents not only a new departure but also the latest instalment in a substantial and satisfying body of work.
Weekend Forum on Quebec writing at the Grande Bibliothèque.