Join authors Kim Echlin and Ray Robertson for a conversation about truth\, storytelling\, and independent thinking in turbulent times. In Tell Others\, St orytelling in a World of Turmoil\, Echlin explores how stories he lp us resist silence and make meaning in a troubled world\, while in The Right to Be Wrong\, Robertson champions the importance o f open dialogue and the freedom to disagree. Together\, their books offer powerful reflections on how we speak\, listen\, and seek understanding tod ay.
\nPresented in partnership with Words Worth Books.
\nF rom the internationally bestselling author of The Disappeared com es a profound meditation on the cultural impact of storytelling and testim ony in five intimate and illuminating essays.
\nIn this moving colle ction\, critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin examines how we turn to l iterature to measure our lives against the darkness of our time. Tell Othe rs explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination.
\nEchlin skillfully blends her lived experience in dif ferent parts of the world&mdash\;teaching in post-revolutionary China\, re searching war crimes in the former Yugoslavia\, studying under one of Cana da&rsquo\;s most respected Elders\, Basil H. Johnston&mdash\;with wide-ran ging reading that offers solace and highlights the possibility to transfor m outrage into understanding and resistance.
\nLooking to her favour ite writers&mdash\;Milan Kundera\, Salman Rushdie\, Ma Jian\, Toni Morriso n\, Margaret Atwood\, and Haruki Murakami\, to name a few&mdash\;Echlin gr apples in fresh ways with tyranny\, war\, sexual violence\, and censorship to bear witness to the past and look to the future. Written in characteri stically unsparing and evocative prose\, Tell Others is an invitation to a ll readers to acknowledge histories that are difficult to see and to make meaning from the stories that buried bones tell.
\nKim Echlin is the award-winning author of Elephant Winter\, < em>Dagmar&rsquo\;s Daughter\, Under the Visible Life\, and < em>Speak\, Silence\, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her novel The Disappeared won the Barnes &\; Noble Discover Great New Writer s Award and is published in 20 countries. She serves on the board of PEN I nternational.
\nAbout The Right to Be Wrong
\nWhen did moral certainty and intellectual omniscience become com pulsory attributes that every citizen is expected to possess? \; Why d oes it seem as if everyone now needs to be on the same side and careful ab out what they say and think and do? Passionately argued\, coolly critical\ , irreverently humorous\, The Right to Be Wrong is a vigorous defense of i ndependent thinking in an increasingly conformist\, intolerant\, and funda mentalist world. \; \;
\nAbout Ray Robertson
\nRay Robertson is the author of nine novels\, seven collections of non-fiction\, and a book of poetry. \; His work has been translated in to several languages. Born and raised in Chatham\, Ontario\, he lives in T oronto.
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