Wordfest 2014 Writers in the News
I predict it will have you clutching your books like long lost children. — Loreena McKennitt, musician, on Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows
Wordfest 2014 Writers in the News
Every season is book seasons it seems. In case you missed some of the news headlines from writers in this year’s lineup, below are some articles worth checking out on writers Kim Thúy, Ken Wylie and Nicholas Carr!
The Day the Mountain Fell
On Jan. 20, 2003, a massive avalanche killed seven people in B.C. This is the story of the tragedy that changed backcountry culture — and the guilt that shattered one guide’s life [Ken Wylie, author of Buried, presented at Wordfest 2014]. Read the full article…
National Post Featured Story, Front Page, Saturday, Sep. 26, 2014.
By Joe O’Connor
Kim Thúy’s Mãn is a story of realism told like a fable
“Mãn, narrated by its titular protagonist, is a story of realism told like a fable. It opens with such enigmatic lines, 'Maman and I don’t look like one another… She has a hole in her calf and I have a hole in my heart.' Maman, it is immediately revealed, is Mãn’s third mother; her birth mother was young, unwed, with 'a hole in her head,' her second mother, a nun with ‘a hole in her faith.'” Read the full article…
Special to The Globe and Mail, Friday, Sep. 26, 2014.
By Anna Fitzpatrick
Loreena McKennitt recommends the depth of The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
“We are living in a time where technological advances have sped up so significantly that they've out-paced our ability as humans to understand, quantify, select, discuss or strategize their use. I am keen to get a better appreciation of what is happening to us as a species and as a civilization, from a personal, professional and civic perspective.”
“In Nicholas Carr’s book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, he presents a forceful argument about how the plasticity of the brain – the very quality that enabled us to adapt so well over time – is also one of the features that makes us so vulnerable to these invasive and ubiquitous "distraction technologies," as he calls them.” Read the full article…
CBC Manitoba, July 29, 2013.
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