While in Ottawa this fall, Douglas Gibson did an interview with Nigel Beale of LiteraryTourist.com. The conversation covers, “[Gibson’s] careers and roles as editor and publisher, about the best Canadian fiction, luck and a system that encourages Canadian writing, olympic gold, the difficulty of literary prizes, subjective judgement, and the most important paragraph of Canadian fiction ever published.”
Listen to the interview here.
Though Doug Gibson is used to people asking him what he’s read or about books he’s worked on, National Post Books Editor Mark Medley recently asked him about a famous book he’d never read. Find out which book it is and why Doug didn’t read it on the Afterword.
You’ve already seen him on the page and on the stage, but Mining Stories Productions wants to bring Gibson and his storytellers to the screen. Director Candida Paltiel is at work on a documentary that will look at the relationships between publisher, authors, and the country they live in. Have a look at the trailer for an overview or the project and some tantalizing glimpses of Gibson’s one-man show:
More info on the documentary is available here.
Thanks to Candida and her team, we’ll also feature vignettes on various authors for the next few weeks, giving you a taste of the stage show and the documentary to come.
Douglas Gibson was interviewed by Cathy Dobson of the Sarnia Observer. The interview covers Gibson’s successful book launch, the process of writing a book, and his one-man show. To read it, go to the Observer‘s website.
Over on the Indigo Non-Fiction blog, Doug Gibson has written a guest post titled “Harder Than I Thought: A Publisher Tries to Write a Book.” The piece begins,
In theory, it should have been easy. After all, in a career of over 40 years, I had edited well over a hundred books, and published thousands. In the role of midwife/cheerleader (“Push! Push! You’re almost there, Alistair!”) I had been involved in the creation of hundreds of books. I knew all of the best tricks and techniques for planning then writing books. Indeed, I was such an expert that I had been known to express impatience with authors who were slow in completing their manuscripts. What the hell was the matter with them?
To find out where things go from there, head over to the Indigo blog.
We’re one week away from the Toronto launch of Stories About Storytellers. It’s going to be a full house, so please don’t forget to RSVP!
Before heading over to his sold out show at the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Doug did an interview with the Vancouver Sun. He talks about his favourite book as a child, his current reads, his workspace and more. Read it here.
The day after Thanksgiving, the Winnipeg Free Press ran a piece on Douglas Gibson by Gordon Sinclair, what he calls “a tribute, of sorts, to a living person.” Sinclair writes of his own experience publishing a book with Gibson, weaving it with the story of Gibson’s experience writing Stories About Storytellers. Read the article online here.
Douglas Gibson recently did an interview with Joseph Planta for Planta: On the Line.
Head over to thecommentary.ca to have a listen!
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