We're joined by Giller-winning author and professor Ian Williams to
reframe community — or what we’re summing up as connections and
collisions in both writing and living. He shares with us about the
community he finds in his writing, while we share with him about
community that we find in his characters. Through Ian’s lens we also
explore the nature of disappointment as ambitious people, failure,
loneliness, reaching out into the world, and giving yourself away.
Buddhism and the search for an informed Christianity also make their
way into our conversation.
Ian Williams is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His latest book, Disorientation, considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people. His novel Reproduction won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was published in Canada, the US, the UK, and Italy. His poetry collection Word Problems converts the ethical and political issues of our time into math and grammar problems. It won the Raymond Souster award.
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