Homecoming: Lunch et Livres
Enjoy a casual lunch while moderator Ann Vroom, BA’67, Past President of the Alumni Association, introduces an impressive trio of literati with McGill connections.
This year’s featured authors are:
Peter Behrens, author of the widely acclaimed debut novel "The Law of Dreams", which won the 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Behrens published a short story collection, "Night Driving", in 1987 and his work has appeared in "Atlantic Monthly", "Tin House", "Saturday Night", "The Walrus", and the "National Post", and in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays.
Philip Slayton studied law at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada. He was a law Professor at McGill, then Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario. Leaving academia, Slayton joined a major Toronto law firm and worked on many of the biggest corporate and commercial cases of the time. His bestselling first book, "Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession", was published last year. Recently, Slayton was a visiting professor of law at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and worked at a pro bono legal clinic in one of the city’s black townships. He has been a contributor to the "Globe and Mail", the "Literary Review of Canada" and "Canadian Lawyer" magazine, among others.
Jan Wong, BA’74, was Beijing correspondent for the "Globe and Mail" from 1988 to 1994. She first went to China in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution as one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University. In 1989, she dodged bullets in Tiananmen Square, fought off a kidnapping attempt and caught the Chinese police red-handed driving her stolen Toyota as a squad car. Her first book, "Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now", made "Time" magazine’s top ten list in 1996 and is still banned in China. She also wrote "Jan Wong’s China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent" (1999) and published a collection of her famous "Lunch With Jan Wong" columns (2001).
Please note that online registration is available until September 16, 2008. After this date, only phone, fax and mailed-in registrations will be processed.
Cost: $20.00 CAD