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SUMMARY:Author talk with Anthea Penne
DESCRIPTION:Join Anthea Penne\, author of Old Stones\, as she reads excerpts from her novel and discusses the research behind it. \nAt the end of the Second World War nearly 50\,000 women emigrated to Canada from Britain and the continent. For those women\, the Atlantic crossing marked the beginning of a great adventure: a new country\, a new life and a new husband. But those transcontinental marriages often created a dual heritage for the children of the unions\, making “home” difficult to define. In Old Stones\, the gap between Anthea’s privileged English and provincial Canadian backgrounds is made achingly clear in family stories from both continents. An unsentimental look at a war-time union\, Old Stones is an inquiry into one woman’s very different backgrounds as well as a candid examination of a family’s cultural divide. \nRegistration required. Register online or call 604-929-3727\, ext. 8166. Contact Vanessa at gillv@nvdpl.ca for more information. \nThis event takes place in the Enid Dearing Meeting Room at Parkgate Library.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/author-talk-with-anthea-penne/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Parkgate branch\, 3675 Banff Court\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7H 2Z8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview
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SUMMARY:Sheila Heti in Conversation with Lee Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of Sheila Heti’s latest book\, Alphabetical Diaries. Sheila will be in conversation with UVic writing professor\, Lee Henderson. \nMunro’s Books is pleased to present two Canadian award-winning authors\, Sheila Heti and Lee Henderson\, in conversation at their store on Tuesday\, February 20th at 7:00 p.m. Sheila Heti will read from her new book Alphabetical Diaries and then chat about it with local fiction writer and UVic creative writing professor\, Lee Henderson. The evening will end with a Q&A with audience members and a book signing with Sheila Heti. This event is free to attend. \nA little over a decade ago\, Sheila Heti—the award-winning author of a string of modern classics including How Should a Person Be?\, Motherhood\, and Pure Colour—began looking back at the diaries she’d kept over the previous ten years\, searching for signs of deeper change inside herself. She loaded all 500\,000 words of her journals into Microsoft Excel\, to order the sentences alphabetically and seek out patterns and repetitions. How many times had she written\, “I hate him\,” for example? With the sentences untethered from the narrative of her diaries\, she started to see herself—and the Self—in a new way: as something quite solid\, anchored by shockingly few characteristic preoccupations. Returning to the project over the years\, something more universal and novelistic emerged. Alphabetical Diaries is the sublime and probing result—one that rises to the heights of artistry and insight for which Heti is rightfully acclaimed. \nSheila Heti is one of our greatest literary innovators and has been pushing boundaries with her work since the age of 24\, when she published her first book\, the short-story collection\, The Middle Stories\, in 2001. She’s since won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature\, and has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Heti’s fiction and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books\, London Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, February 20th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading by Sheila Heti from her latest book\, followed by a conversation with Lee Henderson and a Q&A with the audience. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/sheila-heti-in-conversation-with-lee-henderson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jen Gunter in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of Dr. Jen Gunter’s newest book\, Blood: The Science\, Medicine\, and Mythology of Menstruation. We’ll present Dr. Gunter in conversation with UVic Gender Studies Professor Dr. Thea Cacchioni\, followed by a Q&A with the audience (no requests for medical advice\, please) and a book signing! \nBlood\, The galvanizing new book from Dr. Jen Gunter\, #1 bestselling author of The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto\, dispels the shame\, mythology\, and misinformation around menstruation with scientific facts\, medical expertise\, and a fierce feminist perspective. \nMost of us know about as much about how the uterus and ovaries function as we do about how the liver works. Add in societal shame around the menstrual cycle and it’s not surprising that misinformation is widespread. But\, as women’s health advocate and trusted OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter writes\, “you don’t have to think about your liver 5 days a month for 30 years\, so I’d argue people should know more about the uterus.” Enter Blood. \nIn her new book\, Dr. Gunter offers a clear\, no-nonsense guide to reproductive anatomy and answers all the questions you never knew you had about menstrual bleeding—for example\, where does the blood come from? And where does it go if you miss a period? Why do we even menstruate in the first place? With her expertise and trademark wit\, Dr. Gunter debunks myths and challenges patriarchal attitudes toward this natural bodily process. \nDr. Jen Gunter is board certified in OB/GYN and pain medicine. She writes about the intersection of women’s health\, sex\, science\, and pop culture for the New York Times. She has been called a fierce advocate for women’s health\, Twitter’s gynecologist\, and “strangely confident” by GOOP.com. She believes an empowered patient requires facts and she is here to fix the medical Internet and smash the patriarchy. \nDr. Thea Cacchioni is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UVic. Her research examines the medicalization of sex\, gender\, and sexuality\, broadly\, as well as through specific diagnoses such as Female Sexual Dysfunction and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. She is interested in the ways in which doctors\, psychiatrists\, and more recently\, drug companies shape understandings of “normalcy” and “deviance” across categories of gender\, racialization\, and class. Her work examines the pathologization of some sexual acts and identities and the “healthicization” of others. \nWHEN: Saturday\, February 24th at 7:00PM (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: Victoria Conference Centre Lecture Theatre\, 720 Douglas St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Dr. Jen Gunter in conversation with Dr. Thea Cacchioni\, followed by a Q&A with the audience (no requests for medical advice\, please) and a book signing \nHOW: Tickets can be purchased HERE: https://jengunterblood.eventbrite.ca \nBook plus ticket: $42 (includes a copy of BLOOD to be picked up at the event)\nTicket: $20
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dr-jen-gunter-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Victoria Conference Centre\, 720 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W 3M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet
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