Let's put that to the test, shall we?
This Saturday afternoon, March 20, 2010, at 2 pm, I'll be reading at the Agassiz branch of the Fraser Valley Regional Library, better known (in my mind at least) as The Library. I'll spend the afternoon mere meters from my old high school, reading from The World More Full of Weeping, talking about how Henderson is in no way Agassiz (except those ways in which it is), fielding questions, and maybe, just maybe, giving a sneak preview from the new novel.
Hell, I might even have a title for the new novel by then! Wouldn't that be a treat.
So yes, Saturday afternoon at 2 at the library. It's Agassiz — I don't have to give you an address, do I?
See you there.
Hi Robert
Hope to be at the Agassiz Library for your reading this Sat.
Like you I'm a former grad of Agassiz high (class of '58…or was it 57? it all gets bleary). Got the hell outa town as fast as I could, spent the last 30 odd years in Toronto, teaching in an art school, occasionally showing photos in TO, Vancouver and hey! even the Agassiz Library.
I've kept in touch with the area with yearly returns to my family's house in Harrison which I've kept all these years. But which I am now putting on the market, and sticking around for the duration (said market being the pits). And kinda liking it – not Harrison so much (way too dark) but Agassiz with its open skies and sun when there is any. I also like the fact that it isn't surrounded by malls. So, 'you can't go home again' has been on my mind too.
Sorry to say I haven't yet read your work (only saw the Library notice in the Observer this morning) but will for sure. Having tried my hand at writing a few short stories (one based in and around Agassiz) I know how daunting it is.
I wish you all the best.
Alex