Finding the words
Subtitle: writers on inspiration, desire, war, celebrity, exile, and breaking the rules
By: edited by Jared Bland
Publisher: Emblem; McClelland & Stewart; Emblem Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780771013690
Subjects: Canadian essays
Table of contents: title: A story without words / Heather O'Neill; title: On mediocrity, consensus, and success / Linden MacIntyre; title: How to talk about Mayerthorpe / Marina Endicott; title: Requiem for my grandfather, Jakov Milner, Zionist / David Bezmozgis; title: Alexander / Annabel Lyon; title: To tell her story / Stephanie Nolen; title: Between books / Elizabeth Hay; title: Lulu / Tash Aw; title: Finding Jack's voice: some thoughts on children and language / Emma Donoghue; title: Affricates / Richard Poplak; title: The ethical code for writers, according to fifty people who are not writers / Pasha Malla and Moez Surani; title: The first time / Stacey May Fowles; title: On tuition row / Lee Henderson; title: My character / Lisa Moore; title: Photocopies of photocopies: On Bao Ninh / Madeleine Thien; title: Thinly veiled / Michael Winter; title: As it were: On the metaphysics ethics of fiction / Mark Kingwell; title: A conversation / Diana Athill and Alice Munro; title: The words for a place / David Chariandy; title: Given to inspiration / Steven Heighton; title: Feeling for Akkoo / Martha Kuwee Kumsa; title: TMI: authors in cyberspace / Guy Gavriel Kay; title: On the weight of separation and the lightness of the non-belonging / Rawi Hage; title: The hurting / Joseph Boyden; title: How to swim in a sea of shit / Karen Connelly; title: Across the divide and back / Denise Chong; title: On writing / Alain de Botton; title: Let it ride / Gord Downie; title: Visitation / Miguel Syjuco.