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It's been so good working with Anansi and CBC on the Massey Lectures. As nice as the cover is, I hope you spend more time on the inside.
Enough small talk. It's time for a special CBC Massey Lecture cover celebration!✨
With WHAT I MEAN TO SAY: REMAKING CONVERSATION IN OUR TIME, award-winning novelist and poet @ianwillwrite tackles contemporary communication and the lost art of conversation.
Available Oct. 8th!
ALT An image of the book What I Mean to Say on a teal background.
Ian Williams retweeted
This week’s Bookworm makes a splash!
Read @adrianma on @ianwillwrite’s “What I Mean to Say” (@HouseofAnansi), Caroline Noël on Georgia Toews’s “Nobody Asked for This” (@doubledayca), and @davidvenn_ on @mattscace67’s “Jasper on Fire” (@sutherlandbooks).
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Massey Lecture 1 here. Lecture 2 airs tonight on CBC Ideas.
2024 CBC Massey Lectures: Canadian writer Ian Williams, author of "What I Mean To Say," says we urgently need to relate to one another — and make room for listening. cbc.ca/newsinteractives/feat… via @cbcideas @ianwillwrite
cbc.ca/radio/ideas/massey-le… Here's an interview I did with @NahlahAyed during the Massey tour. You can play it in the background while you "work." Nahlah takes conversations to interesting places better than anyone!
The Massey Lectures begin their broadcast life tonight on CBC. I hope it gives you something to discuss. Here's how to listen: cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2024-…
So much to talk about in the US tonight. Please join us.
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The Massey Lectures aftershow. I'll be in Guelph on Tuesday Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Grab someone you haven't seen in a while and make an evening out of it.
Massey Lecture brings Ian Williams to Bookshelf this month guelphtoday.com:443/columns/…
Ian Williams retweeted
This week’s writing tip comes from Griffin Poetry Prize Trustee and 2024 CBC Massey Lecturer, Ian Williams (@ianwillwrite). His poetry collection, 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨, was shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Tuesday night. A U of T alumni reading. It'll be a book tasting.
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Join us in Toronto for the final Massey Lecture with @NahlahAyed and a couple of surprises.
Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? For one, we often forget that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. Come listen next week to the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures What I Mean to Say: by @ianwillwrite rcmusic.com/events-and-perfo…
Thanks to @thewalrus for publishing this excerpt from the 2024 Massey Lectures. The lectures are about conversation, sure, and also about friendship, strangers, loneliness, and much more.
In a world of screens and silence, @ianwillwrite, who is giving the 2024 @CBC Massey Lectures, reflects on how living alone shapes our conversations, from missed phone calls to fleeting gym encounters.
thewalrus.ca/how-to-talk-to-…
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Another signing dump! ✍️
@ianwillwrite, @Augengrau, Tasneem Jamal, and @afmoritz dropped by the office to sign copies of their books.
Learn more about their work at HouseofAnansi.com.
ALT A photo of Ian Williams holding a copy of What I Mean To Say.
ALT A photo of Al Moritz taking a mid-book signing break to chat with someone just out of view. A stack of copies of Great Silent Ballad is on the table in front of him.
ALT A photo of Kate Camp outside our office with How to Be Happy Though Human.
ALT Tasneem Jamal signing copies of I Never Said That I Was Brave.
It's my book's birthday! From 1961 to the present, what a collection of ideas the Massey Lectures have given Canada!
WHAT I MEAN TO SAY by @ianwillwrite joins the CBC Massey Lecture shelf today! 📚
Learn more about the book at HouseofAnansi.com and find out where Ian will be lecturing on the @cbcideas webpage!
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Ian Williams retweeted
Ian Williams @ianwillwrite will be in Toronto for the final leg of the #CBCMasseyLectures on October 29 at @KoernerHall. Get your tickets: rcmusic.com/tickets/seats/35…
We look forward to hosting the #booklaunch today at 4:00pm.
@HouseofAnansi @CBC @cbcradio @cbcideas
Here's the vibe on stage for the first CBC Massey Lecture in Sydney, NS. It'll be part lecture, part theatre. We have local talent from CBC Cape Breton reading parts. We're not gonna have your average lecture for these Massey's.
The Cabot Trail Writers Festival in Cape Breton runs from Oct 4 to Oct 6. I can't find it on X and I'm not participating in the festival but doesn't it look like something that's been too well kept a secret? cabottrailwritersfestival.co…
Looking forward to co-leading some workshops in Iqaluit as part of the CBC Massey Lecture tour. We're planning to do some cool things at every location. And if you have ideas, reach out.
While we’re in Iqaluit, @ianwillwrite & @Inhabit_Media’s Jamesie Fournier will be teaching two free creative writing workshops at the Iqaluit Centennial Library.
Oct. 8 - Junk Drawer: Writing from Objects.
Register for free: eventbrite.ca/e/junk-drawer-…
Plus, translations of that lecture will be available in Inuktitut.
The @cbcideas #masseylectures making history next month: first time in Iqaluit. Come listen to @ianwillwrite tickets here.
eventbrite.ca/e/the-2024-cbc…
I think we Canadians are in the rare and wonderful position of having a national literature predominantly shaped by women. I'm thinking of Alice Munro, of course, the initiative of the @ShieldsPrize for women, and Canadian Shakespeare herself @MargaretAtwood.