The Montreal-based literary festival runs April 25-28, with online programming starting on the 14th. Wachtel hosted Writers & Company for 33 years before retiring in 2023. The show is currently airing as repeats on CBC Radio.
His beloved 10-acre property on Salt Spring Island, affectionately named Trauma Farm, inspired a memoir that won the 2009 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, one of several major literary awards he received
A new generation of Taiwanese people has worked to push beyond the flattened geopolitical narrative that is so often told, and into more meaningful, albeit ambiguous, territory