{"id":13134,"date":"2011-10-27T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:09:06","slug":"editor-to-some-of-canadas-legends-to-speak-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/editor-to-some-of-canadas-legends-to-speak-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor to some of Canada’s legends to speak at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Douglas

Douglas Gibson's recent book, Stories about Storytellers, is published by ECW Press.<\/p><\/div>\n

Douglas Gibson has edited some of Canada\u2019s biggest names, from Pierre Trudeau to Alice Munro. Now he\u2019s coming to Brock to talk about it.<\/p>\n

The 40-year publishing veteran who founded his own imprint at McClelland and Stewart will be the keynote speaker for Brock’s Two Days of Canada conference<\/a> on Thursday, Nov. 3. Gibson, who penned the recently released book Stories About Storytellers<\/em><\/a>, will present a slide show and tasty anecdotes about some of the literary and cultural giants he’s worked with.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll include colourful stories of dashing through traffic with Trudeau, or committing a \u201chome invasion\u201d to get Alistair MacLeod\u2019s manuscript of No Great Mischief<\/em>. What spectators won\u2019t get, he said, is dirt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing about this whole collection is it\u2019s not a bitter, get-even book,\u201d he said. \u201cI like all the writers I write about, and if I didn’t like them, I didn\u2019t write about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

With one phone call from Alistair MacLeod, for example, \u201cthe world seemed to be a better place. He was such a decent man.\u201d Gibson is also credited with keeping Alice Munro writing short stories. After Munro, who wrote the introduction to Gibson’s book, won the Governor General\u2019s Award for her collection Dance of the Happy Shades<\/em>, everyone in the book trade pressured her to write a novel, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you keep writing short stories, I\u2019ll keep publishing them, and I will never ask you for a novel,\u201d Gibson recalls saying to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlice is now probably the English language\u2019s greatest short story writer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson\u2019s talk is free and open to the public. It will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in Pond Inlet. The 25th annual conference spans over two days, ending Friday, Nov. 4. The theme this year is \u201cCanadian Studies, Canadian Stories: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Pedagogies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson\u2019s presentation will touch on the core of the Canadian identity, said Marion Bredin, co-organizer and associate professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted a dynamic storyteller who\u2019s been at the forefront of getting Canadian stories out there,\u201d she says. \u201cHe\u2019s really covered the range of Canadian thought and popular storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two Days of Canada is sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences<\/a>, the Centre for Canadian Studies<\/a>, the Humanities Research Institute <\/a>and the departments of English Language and Literature<\/a>, History<\/a> and Communication, Popular Culture and Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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