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“I Don’t Know Everybody, but I Think I Know Their Dogs”
Posted 20 June, 2008 in Writing Life, Awards, Writing |
Open Book: Toronto has posted a short video of Trillium Award-winner Barbara Gowdy. In the video, shot by Ian Daffern, Gowdy discusses the genesis of her prize-winning novel, Helpless, as well as the experience of living in Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood (which gives rise to the quoted title of this post) and the setting of Margaret Atwood’s novel Cat’s Eye.