ISBN 1-894773-11-X

$29.99 CDN - $17.99 US

120 pages

50 b + w photographs

8 by 10

paper

Photography – Writing – Canadian Literature

BISAC: PHO014000 - PHO016000
 

Second Chapter: The Canadian Writers Photography Project

Photographer: Don Denton

Banff Centre Press releases a follow-up to First Chapter

Book launch: Second Chapter: The Canadian Writers Photography Project
Friday November 19, 2004 at 7:30 pm.,
Pages Books, 1135 Kensington Rd, NW, Calgary
Wine and cheese will be served.
 

In 1996, photographer Don Denton set out to create a photographic archive of prominent Canadian authors. First Chapter: The Canadian Writers Photography Project collected a sampling of his project to date, including well-known writers such as Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Karen Connelly, and Michael Turner, as well as newer faces on the Canadian writing scene. Due to the positive response to First Chapter, Don Denton offers a follow-up, pointing his lens at such Canadian authors as Douglas Coupland, Camilla Gibb, and Bill Richardson. Each of the fifty photographs is paired with a statement about the writing life from the profiled author. Advice ranges from quirky, tongue-in-cheek quips to serious contemplations of the creative process. Second Chapter shows the faces of CanLit in a revealing light.

Available November 2004

• Launch in Calgary in November

• National mailing of review copies to media and program alumni

• Advertising in Legacy, FFWD, Quill and Quire, The Walrus, and Geist

Some of the fifty writers profiled in Second Chapter include:
bill bissett, Marie-Claire Blais, Christian Bök, Julie Burtinshaw, Kevin Chong, Joan Clarke, Maria Coffey, Douglas Coupland, Bruce Dowbiggin, Gary Geddes, Camilla Gibb, Steven Heighton, Aislinn Hunter, Jack Knox, Chris Koentges, Robert Kroetsch, P. K. Page, Michael Redhill, Bill Richardson, Velcrow Ripper, Esta Spalding, Sheri-D Wilson, Michael Winter
 

EXCERPT
I work every day, and that seems to be true of anyone I’ve met who writes books. I’m suspicious of fiction writers who write whenever. Thursdays are my favourite day of the week because everyone’s answering the phone, and there’s no excuse to be slacking off. Every day should be a Thursday.

After a while I learned that the words I make up on the spur of the moment are always better received than the ones I laboured over forever — those passages that were gleaned from thousands of earnest and worthy notes. It sounds self-evident, but fiction is fiction. Just make the damn stuff up, and your fine.
—Douglas Coupland

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