44 My Generation

Dennis E. Bolen

British Columbia

Linda Grant

United Kingdom

Cate Kennedy

Australia

Dennis E. Bolen, British Columbia

Dennis E. Bolen is a novelist, editor, teacher and journalist. His novels include Stupid Crimes, Krekshuns, Toy Gun, and Kaspoit! A founding editor of the international literary journal subTerrain, Bolen has also taught creative writing and written for numerous Canadian journals and periodicals. His latest book, Anticipated Results, is a collection of linked short stories about the lost members of the boomer generation. He lives in Vancouver. Read more

Linda Grant, United Kingdom

Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, for When I Lived in Modern Times, and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for the Art of Reportage in 2006. She is the author of many books, including Sexing the Millennium, The Cast Iron Shore, The Thoughtful Dresser and The Clothes on Their Backs, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Her latest novel is We Had It So Good. She lives in North London. Read more

Cate Kennedy, Australia

Cate Kennedy’s stories have been widely anthologized in her home country of Australia, as well as appearing in the New Yorker and Harvard Review. Her critically acclaimed collection Dark Roots was published in 2006. She is the author of three poetry collections, her most recent The Taste of River Water, and a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry: A Mexican Journal. Her latest work is her debut novel, The World Beneath, was shortlisted for the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for outstanding literary work. Read more

Host: Jerry Wasserman
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Revue Stage
$17 / $8.50 for student groups

In the immortal words of The Who, “I’m not trying to cause a big sensation—I’m just talkin’ ’bout my generation.” Three authors who focus on the particularities of their time talk about the baby boomers and the Gen-Xers who followed them. Dennis E. Bolen revisits a group of men, grown old but not necessarily grown up, who mock baby-boomer idealism. Linda Grant focuses on another group of boomers who never understood that their own good fortune was also a source of tragedy. Australia’s Cate Kennedy takes on a generation preoccupied with making itself the centre of the universe. These are writers of acute observation and sometimes sad irony who pose the question: Are these universal human flaws or character flaws specific to a particular generation?

Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door 45 minutes before the event begins.

44 My Generation

2011 Festival