Noah Richler on Understanding Stories and How They Spread in the Digital Age

The Departments of English and French at McGill University present:

Noah Richler

"The Truth about Lies: Understanding Stories and How They Spread in the Digital Age"

NOAH RICHLER is the author of This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada, which was nominated for the 2006 Nereus Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Prize and won the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. After his education at McGill University and Balliol College, Oxford, Richler worked as a prize-winning producer and host at BBC Radio. Returning to Canada in 1998, he joined the founding staff of the National Post as its books editor and then as a literary columnist. Additionally, he has written a ten-part series for CBC Radio One’s Ideas based on the researches for his book and remains a regular contributor to the program and to the BBC World Service. He writes frequently for the Op-Ed pages of the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star, as well as for The Walrus, Maclean’s and EnRoute magazine. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards and is currently a resident artist at Toronto’s Young Centre for the Arts.

The event is open to the public.