D.C.Troicuk appearance at Goevrnors Book Pub

Sydney's new literary venue — Governors Book Pub, third Tuesday of evey month — is a big hit and Loose Pearls author Donna Troicuk's reading on Feb. 16 was a big hit. "Tuesday" is one of thirteen stories in the collection.

CBC’s Shelagh Rogers to air interview with CB author

CBC’s Shelagh Rogers to air interview with CB author

An interview with one of Cape Breton’s best-loved writers will be featured on CBC Radio One’s The Next Chapter on the program’s two weekly airings February 22 and 27.

CBC personality Shelagh Rogers recorded the interview with Inverness native Frank Macdonald last fall.

Author of A Forest for Calum (CBU Press, 2005), Macdonald was the longtime editor and publisher of the award-winning Inverness Oran weekly newspaper, until his retirement in 2009.

Macdonald continues to write a column for the paper, but now devotes his time to writing, including a book for young readers forthcoming from Cape Breton University Press in June 2010.

A Forest for Calum was long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest and most international prize of its kind, as well as the Dartmouth Book Award.

Identified as “a Canadian classic” by Globe and Mail reviewer, and “jaw-droppingly beautiful” by another, Macdonald’s world-class novel continues to move readers around the world.

The Next Chapter airs Mondays 1-2 p.m. and Saturdays 4-5 p.m. on CBC Radio One. You can also access a podcast of the program at: http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/podcast.html

Authors to lecture at Butler U

Terry Gibbs and Garry Leech, authors of The Failure of Global Capitalism from Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond (CBU Press, 2009) have been invited to give the 2010 Brahos Lecture at Butler University in Indianapolis on April 12, where their book is being used for a course.

Faculty and students from disciplines such as political science, journalism, history, sociology and anthropology and courses on social movements, gender, race, class and peace are aware of the work of Gibbs and Leech and are expected to take part in dialogues around the book.

Another book by Prof. Leech, Beyond Bogatá: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia (Beacon, 2009) is also being used at Butler.