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58 Non-Fiction After Noon

Gary Geddes
British Columbia
Charlotte Gill
British Columbia
Gary Geddes,  British Columbia

Gary Geddes has written and edited more than 40 books and has received numerous literary awards, including the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and Chile’s Gabriela Mistral Prize. He is the author of two bestselling travel memoirs, The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things and Sailing Home. He lives on Thetis Island in British Columbia. His new book, Drink the Bitter Root, is a condemnation of the horrors spawned by greed and corruption and an eloquent tribute to human resilience. Read more

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Charlotte Gill,  British Columbia

Charlotte Gill is the author of the story collection Ladykiller, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, winner of the Danuta Gleed Award and the BC Book Prize for Fiction. Her narrative non-fiction has been nominated for Western and National Magazine Awards. Gill spent nearly two decades working in the forests of Canada and has planted more than a million trees, an experience that informs her new memoir, Eating Dirt: Field Notes on Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe. Read more

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Andrew Nikiforuk,  Alberta

Andrew Nikiforuk is a well-known Canadian journalist whose work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Equinox, and Canadian Family and in the Globe and Mail and the National Post. His books include Pandemonium; Saboteurs, which won a Governor General’s Award; Fourth Horseman and Tar Sands. Read more

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Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 2:00pm
Studio 1398
$17

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Canadian publishing house D&M, we bring together three D&M authors to celebrate. Gary Geddes has written a perilous and provocative narrative based on his travels through Africa, which does not flinch from recording the realities of sub-Saharan life as he saw them. Charlotte Gill’s memoir, Eating Dirt, relates her experiences as a member of the tribe of tree planters caught on the land between environmentalists and loggers. Andrew Nikiforuk uses his fine journalistic skills to reveal the devastation caused by the bark beetle in Empire of the Beetle. Each of these writers has a fierce belief that these are stories that must be told, and told well so that we will pay attention. Settle in for an afternoon that really matters.

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

This event is sponsored by D&M Publishers Inc.


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