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October 2013

Friday October 18, 2013

Victoria Writers Festival, British Columbia – with M.A.C. Farrant

Friday October 4, 2013

Sidney Literary Festival, British Columbia – with M.A.C. Farrant

M.A.C. Farrant

Photo: Barry Peterson

M.A.C. Farrant is the acclaimed author of ten collections of satirical and humorous short fiction, and two works of non-fiction. Her writing has been widely anthologized in North America and has been dramatized for television. Farrant, who reviews books for the Toronto Globe & Mail and the Vancouver Sun, is also a frequent contributor to leading magazines such as Adbusters and Geist. Her stage adaptation of her memoir, My Turquoise Years, premieres with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver, April 4 – May 4, 2013, Granville Island Stage.

May 2013 : 2013 Jessie Richardson Award Nominations for Talonbooks Playwrights

April 2013 : A Trailer for My Turquoise Years

April 2013 : Interview with Stars of My Turquoise Years

March 2013 : Catch the Wave at the Arts Club!

October 2012 : Stranger Than Fiction?

June 2012 : Memoir of a Canadian Childhood

August 2011 : They Rule!

March 2011 : M.A.C. Farrant is at the Campbell River Writer's Festival

December 2010 : Christmas Cheer from M.A.C. Farrant!

BOOK AWARDS

One of the Top Twenty Three Canadian Fiction Books of 2012 (Globe and Mail)

QUOTES OF NOTE

“ The Strange Truth About Us is impossible to summarize, save to say that it is both an acknowledgment of and an antidote to all the uncertainty we must shoulder in this, our age of anxiety and absence. Delightful and disturbing in all the best ways, this book addresses that which mostly remains unspoken in ways that have seldom been spoken before.”

– The Globe and Mail

“One thing is sure: the format invites – if not demands – us to dip into the book again and again for insights that are funny, timely, provocative and unsettling.”
– Prairie Fire Review of Books

“ The Strange Truth About Us is shot through with Farrant’s subversive wit, her acute sense of irony, As well as being poetic and thought-provoking, it is quite funny.”
– Victoria Times Colonist

QUOTES OF NOTE

"Farrant has a lightness of touch, and her writing is not too charmed by its own cleverness; she achieves something quite tricky there. With an eye to the world that is somewhat aslant, her stories cannot nestle neatly into the forms usually associated with realism, and the formats she chooses are refreshing: at her best, it feels as if she is getting at the heart of something that takes other writers much longer to lead us to." — Canadian Literature

“ … a brave iconoclast.”
— Publishers Weekly

“Farrant, it appears, will offer satire, surrealism and silliness to guide us through the rogue waves of reality toward a shore called Meaning. The stories are full of changing ideas and scenarios, and contain worlds. The reader might want to pick at these stories slowly, however, as they are extremely rich.”
— Globe & Mail

“M.A.C. Farrant is a trapeze artist of the imagination, swinging over the existential void.”
— BC Bookworld

QUOTES OF NOTE

“A brave iconoclast …”

— Publishers Weekly

“ The Breakdown So Far is a fantastic and whimsical challenge to the intellectual doom of everyday life. [Farrant] is an elegant and spare writer, whipping up a foam of visionary ideas with a few short strokes of language.”

— Ottawa Xpress

“ The Breakdown So Far is challenging, unnerving, unforgettable and very unlikely. If, as Nabokov advises, the monster of grim common sense must be ‘shot dead,’ then Farrant is, indeed, a crack shot.”

— Globe and Mail

“Farrant is a master of the literary equivalent of a waking dream, creating subtle insurrections disguised as prose. The Breakdown So Far, her latest collection of absurd short stories, is a minivan crammed full of weird.”

— Toronto Star

“[Farrant] manages to make these stories feel very whole and rounded, despite their brevity—no small task.”

— Herizons

QUOTES OF NOTE

Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic, visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer.
— Globe & Mail

M.A.C. Farrant is a wonderful writer of domestic comedy."
— Bill Richardson, CBC

A brave iconoclast.
— Publishers Weekly

“Quixotically brilliant…”
— January Magazine