Prefaces & Afterwords

Welcome to the Prefaces & Afterwords, Q&A interviews with festival authors. Watch this space for our conversations with writers who will be featured in upcoming events.

Getting to know Richard Wagamese

Posted February 22nd, 2012 by Tavia in Incite 2012, Proust Questionnaire, Richard Wagamese

The Proust Questionnaire: Richard Wagamese

Richard Wagamese

The Proust Questionnaire is believed to reveal an individual’s true nature. We have asked 2011 Festival authors 17 questions inspired by the questionnaire in an attempt to uncover who they are…

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Perfect happiness is laying on the sofa in the dark beside my wife after a long, productive day listening to something moving and beautiful and not having to be or wanting to be anywhere but there in those sublime moments engulfed in music.

More >>

Getting to know Robert Hough

Posted February 21st, 2012 by Tavia in Incite 2012, Proust Questionnaire, Robert Hough

The Proust Questionnaire: Robert Hough

The Proust Questionnaire is believed to reveal an individual’s true nature. We have asked 2011 Festival authors 16 questions inspired by the questionnaire in an attempt to uncover who they are…

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The dragon of ambition is finally slayed!

More >>

Getting to know Pico Iyer

Posted February 17th, 2012 by Tavia in Incite 2012, Pico Iyer, Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire: Pico Iyer

The Proust Questionnaire is believed to reveal an individual’s true nature. We have asked 2011 Festival authors 16 questions inspired by the questionnaire in an attempt to uncover who they are…

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Absorption.

More >>

Inciteful Moment

Posted February 16th, 2012 by Tavia in Hal Wake, Incite

Inciteful Moment

by Hal Wake

Some time in the early fall last year, the Globe & Mail published an article that decried the impending season of literary readings. Who can endure another mind-numbing, death by droning performance, by a writer who should never be allowed near a microphone, the article’s author asked?

More >>

Getting to know Anne DeGrace

Posted February 15th, 2012 by Tavia in Anne DeGrace, Incite 2012, Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire: Anne DeGrace

The Proust Questionnaire is believed to reveal an individual’s true nature. We have asked 2011 Festival authors 16 questions inspired by the questionnaire in an attempt to uncover who they are…

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A sunny fall day—late afternoon, long shadows—walking in the woods with a few good dogs.

More >>