Cultural Journalism Conversations

July 12, 19, 26 and August 2 at 8 p.m.

ROLSTON RECITAL HALL

Our popular Monday night series features four perceptive and provocative writers of non-fiction in a wide-ranging series of cultural talks.

July 12 - Tim Page is the Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic at the Washington Post and a leading Glenn Gould expert. His books include The Glenn Gould Reader and Tim Page on Music: Views and Reviews.

July 19 - Charlotte Gray has written books on Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, and Isabel Mackenzie King. Her latest is Canada: A Portrait in Letters from 1800 to 2000.

July 26 - Mark Abley is a winner of the National Newspaper Award for critical writing, and is the author or editor of nine books. His most recent book, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, was shortlisted for both the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal.

August 2 - In her lecture entitled Writing Cuba: Grace Under Pressure — A Traveler’s Tales, Rosemary Sullivan talks about Cuba outside the political parameters that often distort our vision of this remarkable island, focusing instead on the private lives of its inhabitants, visiting writers, musicians, dancers, painters, farmers, and students in their homes. Come enjoy this rarely recorded, intimate portrait of Cubans in their daily lives.