2014 GG Podcast Interview with Kate Pullinger

In this episode of the 2014 GG Podcast, host Paul Kennett speaks with GG winner Kate Pullinger about her most recent novel, Landing Gear, in this live recording during the 19th annual Wordfest.

In Landing Gear, suburban housewife Harriet spends her days doing what she’s worst at. Formerly a local radio host, now she grocery shops for her family who has too much to eat, parents a son who refuses to communicate with her, and tries to be a wife to a man who hasn’t embraced her in years. But what starts out as a mundane trip to the supermarket turns her world upside down when a mysterious man falls out of the sky from the landing gear of an airplane onto her car, and survives. He’s starving and he’s freezing cold. What can she do but bring him home to her family?

Kate Pullinger is the author of ten novels, including The Mistress of Nothing, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Pullinger's prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world. Pullinger co-wrote the novel of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion.

Each year Wordfest selects and interviews writers from its annual Festival who have received a GG award in various categories.

The interviews explore the writing process, the impact of winning a Governor General’s Literary Award and the contribution of the literary arts to Canada’s cultural landscape.

Related Posts