Tenure Launch

Founded in 1977, NeWest Press is one of Canada's first independent literary publishing houses. NeWest publishes literary fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and drama, as well as a line of mystery novels, with a particular interest in books by Western Canadian authors. Its Nunatak imprint is the longest-running first-fiction series in Canada.

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Kieran Egan's latest novel, Tenure, with special guest readers A.J. Devlin and Sam Wiebe, followed by a Q&A. The official bookseller is<a href="https://www.bookwarehouse.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Main Street Book Warehouse.</a> This event will be held on Zoom and will be recorded. The Zoom link will be emailed to you in the email confirmation from Eventbrite. Email marketing@newestpress.com if you have any issues. About <a href="https://newestpress.com/books/tenure" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tenure</a>: Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family’s lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university.Luckily, Mark is a man for whom impossible is just another word. As a sophisticated importer-exporter of certain recreational substances (“drug lord” is such a cliché), Mark gets to work on the academic world with the same relentless nature that helped him climb to the top of the cartel. However, the hallowed campus halls reveal an environment that is vicious and corrupt beyond anything he has ever encountered in the drug business...Kieran Egan’s Tenure is a wildly entertaining satire mash-up, where campus culture collides with crime.About <a href="https://newestpress.com/authors/kieran-egan" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kieran Egan</a>: Kieran Egan was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, and educated in England, receiving a BA in history. He then went to California to work with IBM Corp. as a consultant while beginning a PhD at Stanford University, which he completed at Cornell University in 1972. His first academic job was at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, where he remained till his recent retirement. His academic work dealt with innovative educational theory and detailed practical methods whereby implications of the theory can be applied in everyday classrooms. He focused on the nature and development of imagination, and argued for its centrality in learning and the construction of meaning. There have been about forty translations of his books into around twenty languages. He and his wife have three children and five grandchildren —all, of course, wonderful, and all the children produce books of various kinds. During his academic life he gave talks in most European countries, and throughout Asia, South America, and Australasia. He also writes poetry and has published in many Canadian, British, Irish, and USA magazines. He has an interest in Japanese-style gardens, and built one at the rear of his house, which resulted in a book, Building My Zen Garden, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), and also a TV program in the Recreating Eden series. He was an athlete when younger—quite good at long-jump and triple-jump—but after four operations, he now has metal screws in his knees. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

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