I’ll be doing two readings at this year’s Word on the Street. At 1:40 in the Canada Reads Tent I’ll be presenting The Sky Is Falling. At 2:40 in the Kids’ Tent I’ll be on stage with Billie Livingston talking about our teen novella “flip book” Film Studies and The Trouble with Marlene. The event takes place at Library Square in downtown Vancouver.
North by Northwest, CBC Radio One
Sunday 26 September, 2010, sometime between 6 and 9 am, the interview I did with Sheryl MacKay about The Sky Is Falling will air on North by Northwest, 690 AM/88.1 FM Vancouver. Sheryl is a wonderful interviewer. I felt like I was having an ordinary conversation with her, despite the fact that we weren’t even sitting in the same room.
The Sky Is Falling
This is the official publication date of my new novel, The Sky Is Falling. I’ll be reading from the book, my third novel, at the following events throughout the fall. I hope to see you there.
Word on the Street, Vancouver : 26 September, 1:40 in the Canada Reads Tent (NOT in the the Kids’ Tent at 4:00 as is printed in the schedule)
Vancouver Public Library, Alice MacKay Room: 5 October, 7:00 pm
Whistler Writers’ Festival, Squamish Lil’Wat Cultural Centre: 16 October, 7:30 pm
Vancouver International Writers’ Festival Grand Opening, Performace Works:19 October, 8:30 pm
Vancouver International Writers’ Festival, Performance Works: 21 October, 8:00 pm
International Festival of Authors, Toronto, Lakeside Terrace: 30 October, 4:00 pm
IFOA, Orillia, Stephen Leacock Museum: 2 November, 7:30 pm
IFOA Barrie, Gryphon Theatre: 3 November, 7:30 pm
Canada’s Top 10 Underrated Writers
I am thrilled to make this list, along with some of my own favourite writers: Lynn Coady, Douglas Glover, Russell Smith and Bill Gaston. Alex Good and Steven W. Beattie write:
Another sometime novelist (her new novel, The Sky is Falling, is out in September), Adderson is one of this country’s best – and least heralded – short-story writers. Like Lisa Moore, Adderson’s stories have been characterized as “difficult” by people groomed to expect some neat moral at the close, or some clever twist à la Poe or Maupassant. Adderson, who rightly acknowledges that stories are closer in spirit to poetry than to novels, is more interested in language than in traditional notions of plot or character development; her stories are small stylistic masterpieces. Never showy or ornate, they epitomize Jonathan Swift’s prescription for good writing: “Proper words in proper places.” Although in Adderson’s case, the word “proper” should be understood as “unexpected and delightful.”
Soon to be a MINOR motion picture!
My short story “Hauska Tutustua” from Pleased to Meet You has been optioned by writer-director Michael MacLennan and producer Elizabeth Levine. It will be made into a short film for Bravo!FACT.