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.
Contributing editor Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa chats with author Jonah Campbell.
When French author Annie Ernaux was ten years old, she overheard her mother conversing with a customer outside the family-run small grocery. The mother confided that there was a daughter before Annie, a six-year old girl who contracted diphtheria and who “died like a little saint.” L’Autre fille (The Other Daughter) is Annie Ernaux’s letter to the departed.
Annie Ernaux [Photo: Catherine Hélie, Gallimard]
When it comes to plagues and pestilence, the writers mentioned most often nowadays are Boccaccio, Defoe, Camus, and Garcia Marquez. But it’s Waiting for Godot and a 1986 story by Susan Sontag that come to Linda Leith’s mind.
The Cipriani Pool [Photo: Marco LoVerso]
