 | Thursday, August 08, 2024 | |  | | | | CBC Books has announced this year's writers to watch list! Here are 30 Canadian writers on the rise in 2024. | | |  | | | | Inspired by the life and work of physicist Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize, Everything There Is follows the complicated life of a deeply brilliant man who is devout in his religion and his work in physics.
Toronto-based author M.G. Vassanji spoke to The Next Chapter’s Ali Hassan about what inspired his latest novel. | | |  | | | | Toronto writer and educator Kate Gies likes to think that her memoir It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished is the book she needed growing up.
In poignant vignettes, she recounts her experiences as a young girl born without an ear and the 14 surgeries she underwent before the age of 13. Read an excerpt now! | | |  | | | | With the rise of celebrity book clubs and the popularity of BookTok, the idea of communal reading is experiencing a renaissance and attracting younger readers. Learn more about the innovative book bars and readerly communities that are redefining the typical book club. | | |  | | | | The CBC Massey Lectures are back this fall, and they may be coming to a city near you.
This year, novelist and poet Ian Williams wants to start a conversation about conversations – addressing how civic and civil discourse has deteriorated. Tickets will be on sale starting Aug. 12. | | |  | | | | Rajinderpal S. Pal was sitting on a bench in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood on a June afternoon in 2005 as he watched a man who looked just like him run by. He came home and wrote seven pages of prose that would become part of his novel released 20 years later.
Pal spoke with North by Northwest’s Margaret Gallagher about his book, However Far Away. | | |  | | | | Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most daring and prolific contemporary authors, her most recent works including the collection of four decades worth of correspondence, Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer and the novel Butcher.
In 2012, she won the Blue Metropolis Grand Prix in Montreal. Revisit Eleanor Wachtel’s conversation with Oates on Writers & Company after her win. | | |  | | | | Former Canada Reads panellist Mirian Njoh is a self-described "creative multi-hyphenate" and lifelong reader with an online following of over 236,000 people. From memoirs to romance, Njoh shares three must-read books with Ali Hassan on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Sarah Henstra's The Lost Tarot is a decade-spanning mystery exploring themes of love, power and persuasion from an English commune to the halls of the University of Toronto.
The Toronto-based author discussed her fascination with the occult and academia with Christa Couture on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Francine du Plessix Gray was a novelist, biographer and literary critic who died in 2019 at 88.
The French-American writer was known for her book Them, which tells the story of her eclectic parents' journey from the artistic Russian émigré community of 1930s Paris to the top of New York's high society. In 2006, she spoke to Writers & Company’s Eleanor Wachtel about what makes a compelling personal story. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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