Reading: Lawrence Hill

So, FINALLY here's the Lawrence Hill video I promised. It wasn't just HOT AIR! (Heh.)

Enough time has elapsed since THIN AIR that I could sit down and slice up the twenty minute video I shot of Hill's wide-ranging and charming introduction to his brace of new books. Part of the issue was that a twenty minute video was huge, hard-disk-wise, so I had to shuffle external hard drives and laptops to make it work.

"But it's taken soooo long, he's not even on the Giller long-list anymore!" I can hear you all exclaiming, long-suffering and wearied.

But still. You can watch the video and remember a day, a month ago, when the weather was a little warmer and the authors teemed.

Fun! (and Sorry!)

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Lawrence Hill, formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for the Winnipeg Free Press, has captured both critics and audiences with his fiction and non-fiction.

His titles include Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, a memoir of growing up in a mixed race family, and novels Any Known Blood and Some Great Thing.

He has released two books this year: The Deserter’s Tale (Anansi) is the account of Joshua Keys, the young soldier who was devastated by his experience in Iraq, and The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins), a sprawling epic of slavery that winds through Canadian history.

Hill lives in Burlington, Ontario.