Selection Of The Month
From the publisher: "In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confronting the complexities of being a parent in the Anthropocene, Trussler’s interconnected essays are united by his lived experience with a rare learning disability. The Sunday Book freshly engages with fundamental existential problems such as free will and contingency, all the while providing an original take on our contemporary moment."
Zoom Meeting Information
Zoom information will be provided closer to the planned meeting: 12:00pm-1:00pm, November 22nd, 2023.
Discussion Points
This discussion will feature a special guest, the The Sunday Book author Michael Trussler. The meeting will be moderated and per the interest and direction of the guest.
Further Reading And Materials
Review:
“The Sunday Book is a beautifully written, acutely observed memoir that gives us an unflinching glimpse into one mans’s journey through middle-age, depression, anxiety and modern life. A poignant examination of aging and loss that encompasses time, metaphysics and art.”—Don Gillmor and Alexandra Shimo, 2020 Saskatchewan Writers Guild competition for nonfiction citation"
About the Author: https://palimpsestpress.ca/our-authors/michael-trussler/
"Michael Trussler writes poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction. He is also a photographer. He’s published various books, most recently Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah (Mansfield Press, 2021). His prize-winning work has appeared in domestic and international anthologies and journals. His collection of short stories, Encounters, won the Book of the Year and City of Regina Awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2006. Accidental Animals, a poetry collection, was short-listed for the same awards in 2007. He teaches English at the University of Regina."