Cultural Journalism Conversations
This Monday night author series is one of the Festival’s most popular summertime traditions.
Ronald Wright
August 1, 8:00 p.m. • Rolston Recital Hall • Free
Ronald Wright is a novelist, historian, and essayist, who has won awards in all three genres, and is published around the world in more than a dozen languages. In 2004 he gave the CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, which became a national bestseller and is now being widely published abroad. » More
Previous Cultural Journalism Conversations from this year’s Festival
Rosemary Sullivan
July 11, 8:00 p.m. • Rolston Recital Hall • Free
Rosemary Sullivan is the Maclean Hunter Chair of the Creative Non-fiction and Cultural Journalism program at The Banff Centre. She is the author of ten books including Cuba: Grace Under Pressure with photographs by Malcolm Batty; Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession; and the national bestseller The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out. » More
Deirdre Bair
July 18, 8:00 p.m. • Rolston Recital Hall • Free
Deirdre Bair won the U.S. National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, an award for which her earlier biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were prize finalists. Her most recent epic is Jung: A Biography. Bair is currently writing a book about late divorce. » More
Richard Rodriguez
July 25, 8:00 p.m. • Rolston Recital Hall • Free
Richard Rodriguez is a contributing editor of Harper’s and the Los Angeles Times, and a regular essayist on the “Jim Lehrer News Hour.” He is the author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America, and Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father. » More