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The Charles Taylor Prize finalists, including The Love Queen of Malabar author Merrily Weisbord, will be appearing on Bravo's Arts & Minds. If you're in the Toronto area on January 28th, RSVP to attend the live taping (circle@ctv.ca, 416-384-2211).
Weisbord along with the other shortlisted authors also took part in a recent National Post panel discussing the issues facing non-fiction publishing:
Merrily: Its colorful, idiosyncratic nature - biography, memoir, travel, adventure, sociology, sexology, anthropology — in my case, is now damned as “mixed genre” writing. It scares sales and marketing, the new gatekeepers of publishing, and the chains don’t know where to put the books on the shelves. I wrote my first non-fiction book because CBC found the subject too cold-war sensitive for a radio documentary. And I wrote this last one, not because of an obvious lack of journalism outlets, but because there was no other way to tell the story. A quote that may be of interest: “When you write fiction, the material comes into your mind already shaped in a certain way. But when you’re dealing with nonfiction, you have the clay and you have to fashion it in certain ways and it offers you resistance simply because you’re dealing with facts. To organize them elegantly, or to shape them in a narrative that will actually hold your attention, is very hard to do.” Amitav Ghosh, 1994.
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