InterviewsTag

Special Interview: Dr. Francis Warner on the AGO's Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty

Artists Francis Bacon and Henry Moore were contemporaries (though never collaborators) who shared an obsession with expressing themes of suffering, struggle and survival in relation to the human body. ...

The Proust Questionnaire, with Scott Carter

Barrett Fuller is a womanizer. A boozer. A drug user. What many people don't know though, is that he's also the man behind an incredibly successful (and necessarily pseudonymous) series of children's ...

Words & Pictures Interview with Sasha Suda, Assistant Curator, AGO

We may worship our bookshelves in our own ways today, but early books had a much more literal connection to the spiritual. They were considered art objects and closely bound to religious tradition — ...

Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Classic Canadian Children's Books, Old and New (Part Two)

Welcome back to the kick-off of my monthly blog on Open Book: Toronto, which will be celebrating Canadian children's books, their creators and the kid lit biz in general!In Part One of this blog, I asked ...

The Dirty Dozen, with Safia Fazlul

The Harem (TSAR Publications) is Safia Fazlul's literary debut. The book tells the story of Farina, a young woman who, in her desperation to escape her strict household, finds herself caught up in a confusing ...

On Editing, with Anita Chong

On Editing is our newest interview series at Open Book, giving us the chance to speak to the great editors who help writers shape their work into the very best version of itself.Today we're pleased to ...

The Proust Questionnaire, with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as the Yarn Harlot, is the author of All Wound Up (Simon & Schuster Canada). Her hugely popular knitting blog receives more than 40,000 visitors per month.In her ...

Ten Questions, with Michael Bliss

Michael Bliss has been hailed as one of Canada's leading intellectuals and is often approached for his opinion on political, cultural and historical issues. His achievements have earned him an Order of ...

The Proust Questionnaire, with Brooke Ford

Brooke Ford lives in Toronto, Ontario, and is currently a Ph.D. student at Ryerson University. She has been published in Canada, including in Open Book: Toronto and The Globe and Mail. She is part of ...

Inside the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA at Guelph-Humber, with Catherine Bush

Catherine Bush, novelist and associate program coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA at Guelph-Humber, talks to Open Book about their unique writing program, the award-winning mentoring ...