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Noah Richler, This is My Country, What’s Yours? (McClelland & Stewart)
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Noah Richler was raised in Montreal and London, England. He was a prize-winning producer and host of documentaries and features for BBC Radio for fourteen years before he returned to Canada in 1998 to join the fledgling National Post, where he was the first books editor and then a literary columnist. He has contributed to numerous publications in Britain, including Granta, the Guardian, Punch and the Daily Telegraph, and in Canada to The Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, Maisonneuve, Saturday Night and The Walrus. He was the host of the CBC’s Richler on Radio and produced “A Literary Atlas of Canada,” the ten-part radio series based on the material for the book, for CBC Radio One’s Ideas. This program will be re-broadcast in August.
Noah Richler divides his time between Toronto and Nova Scotia with his wife and two children.
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------------------------------------------------- Noah Richler’s THIS IS MY COUNTRY, WHAT’S YOURS? A Literary Atlas of Canada is a bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.
Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to our authors for evidence of the true nature of Canada. Over two years, Richler has criss-crossed the country and interviewed close to one hundred authors – a who’s who of Canadian literature including Wayne .
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Johnston, Michael Crummey, Alistair MacLeod, Gil Courtemanche, Jane Urquhart, Joseph Boyden, Miriam Toews, Yann Martel, Fred Stenson, Douglas Coupland, and Rohinton Mistry – about the places and ideas that are most meaningful to their work. In thematic chapters, Richler shows how our writers represent Canada as a place of new beginnings and, at the same time, a land of inevitable erasure. He exposes our “Myths of Disappointment,” and considers the stories of our native peoples, the rise of the city, and how our history as a colony shapes our society and politics even today.
THIS IS MY COUNTRY, WHAT’S YOURS? A Literary Atlas of Canada is an impassioned literary travelogue and a vivid portrayal of our society, the work of Canadian authors, and the idea of writing itself
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