Port Medway Readers’ Festival 20-Aug-2016:
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin is no stranger to the Readers’ Festival, to the Port Medway Old Meeting House, or to anyone who reads and cares about American journalism. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1963, where he has reported on everything from desegregation to Conrad Black’s peerage and shopping at Frenchy’s. His political light verse is one of the delights of The Nation, and his memoir, About Alice, a much beloved bestseller. This summer, Random House will bring out Jackson, 1964, his collection of fifty years of writings on race in America.
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Photo © Elizabeth Hay
Port Medway Readers’ Festival 23-Jul-2016:
Joan Clark
Joan Clark’s newest novel begins with an unexpected demise, sudden and violent, yet The Birthday Lunch is a sunny book – set during one July 1981 week in Sussex, N.B, a town that, for just about every New Brunswicker, evokes dairies and ice cream. As the family gathers for the funeral, Clark enjoys her characters’ foibles and, as we get to know them, so do we; her book illuminates both the ordinariness and the devastating uniqueness of death—it packs real punch. Born on the South Shore, now living in Newfoundland, Joan Clark has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Commonwealth Fiction Award and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has received many national awards for her work in Canada.
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Photo © Elizabeth Hay
Port Medway Readers’ Festival 9-Jul-2016:
Elizabeth Hay
On the first page of Elizabeth Hay’s His Whole Life, a young boy asks his parents, “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” A generous writer who has always been eloquent on the messiness of family life, Hay’s latest book sets the boy’s coming of age between the lead-up to the second Quebec referendum and the death of Pierre Trudeau, exploring the competing claims on everyone’s love and loyalty. The Giller Prize winner returns to read from her Rogers Writers’ Trust-nominated bestseller.
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Photo © Elizabeth Hay
Philip Slayton taught law at McGill University and was the dean of law at the University of Western Ontario before turning to legal practice. He worked at a major Canadian law firm on Bay Street. Since retiring from the practice of law in 2000, he has become the author of two best-selling books: Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, published in hard cover by Viking Canada in 2007, in paperback by Penguin Canada in 2008, and as an ebook in 2010; and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, published in hard cover and as an ebook in 2011 by Allen Lane and as a paperback by Penguin Canada in 2012. In 2014 he independently published Bay Street: A Novel, a legal thriller. Philip’s latest book is Mayors Gone Bad, a series of profiles of recent and current Canadian mayors gone amok.
The Port Medway Reader’s Festival 2015 – one of Canada’s premier literary festivals – takes place in July and August.
This year’s authors include
(Michael Crummey and David Adams Richards were nominated for the prestigious 2015 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.)
Events are held at the Old Meeting House on 167 Long Cove Rd, Port Medway, starting at 7pm and are CAD 20.– each.
For ticketing see here.
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Port Medway Reader’s Festival 1-Aug-2015:
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey has published nine books of poetry and fiction. Galore won the Canadian Authors’ Association Fiction Award, the Commonwealth Prize (Canada & Caribbean Region), and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Governor-General’s Award. Sweetland was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2014 Governor-General’s Award and the BMO Winterset Award. His most recent poetry collection is Under the Keel (Anansi, 2013). He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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Photo © Michael Crummey
Calvin Trillin is no stranger to the Readers’ Festival, to the Port Medway Old Meeting House, or to anyone who reads and cares about American journalism. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1963, where he has reported on everything from desegregation to Conrad Black’s peerage and shopping at Frenchy’s. His political light verse is one of the delights of The Nation, and his memoir, About Alice, a much beloved bestseller. This summer, Random House will bring out Jackson, 1964, his collection of fifty years of writings on race in America.
