Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
22 Jul 2011 at 17:39
Julija Šukys
Academia, Autobiography, Canada, Domesticity, Editing, Grad School, Humanities, Journeys, Language and Multilingualism, Uncategorized
The books that have surrounded me in this room for six years now go into boxes to make space for our tenants. The books – mine and my husband’s – are all mixed together. Our collection includes books of theory from our student days, Lithuanian novels, linguistic studies of Sanskrit, Chinese literary anthologies, memoirs of [...]
11 Jul 2011 at 10:19
Julija Šukys
Autobiography, Balkans, Biography, Byzantium, Canada, CanLit, Christianity, CNF Conversations, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Feminism, Journeys, Language and Multilingualism, Matt Cohen, Memoir, Myrna Kostash, Orthodoxy, Publishing, Rejection, Research, Saints, Slavs, Translation, Ukraine, Uncategorized, Writing
Myrna Kostash, Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010. * Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Myrna Kostash is a fulltime writer, author of All of Baba’s Children (1978); Long Way From Home: The Story of the Sixties Generation in Canada (1980); No Kidding: Inside the World of Teenage Girls [...]
11 Jul 2011 at 10:18
Julija Šukys
Autobiography, Balkans, Biography, Byzantium, Canada, CanLit, Christianity, CNF Conversations, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Feminism, Journeys, Language and Multilingualism, Matt Cohen, Memoir, Myrna Kostash, Orthodoxy, Publishing, Saints, Slavs, Ukraine, Uncategorized, Writing
Myrna Kostash, Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2010. * This is Part II of a two-part interview with Myrna Kostash about her book, Prodigal Daughter. Click here to read Part I. Julija Šukys: You are a writer who is very rooted in Western Canada and in the Ukrainian [...]
