Trinity Title Talks: Nick Mount

The John W. Graham Library at Trinity College is part of the University of Toronto Libraries system. Its roots date back to 1828 and today it occupies the East House of the Munk School of Global Affairs, a renewed heritage building. The library's 200,000 volume collection is strongest in international relations, ethics, and the humanities. The John W. Graham Library also houses the combined theological collection of Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges. The library servesstudents from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts and Sciene, the Toronto School of Theology, and the faculty and alumni of Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges.

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Please join the John W. Graham Library at Trinity Title Talks with Trinity College Fellow and University of Toronto Professor Nick Mount. Professor Mount will discuss his recently published Arrival: The Story of CanLit (House of Anansi Press, 2017). A Q&A section will follow the lecture. 
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From the publisher:
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"In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?
Written with wit and panache, Arrival tells the story of Canada’s literary awakening. Interwoven with Mount’s vivid tale are enlightening mini-biographies of the people who made it happen, from superstars Leonard Cohen and Marie-Claire Blais to lesser-known lights like the troubled and impassioned Harold Sonny Ladoo. The full range of Canada’s literary boom is here: the underground exploits of the blew ointment and Tish gangs; revolutionary critical forays by highbrow academics; the blunt-force trauma of our plain-spoken backwoods poetry; and the urgent political writing that erupted from the turmoil in Quebec.
Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Arrival is a dazzling, variegated, and inspired piece of writing that helps explain how we got from there to here.
<A HREF="https://twitter.com/profnickmount?lang=en" TARGET="_self" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NICK MOUNT</A> is a professor of English literature at the University of Toronto, award-winning critic, and former Fiction Editor at The Walrus. He regularly gives public talks on the arts in Canada, and has appeared on TVO’s Big Ideas and CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition. He is a two-time finalist in TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition. In 2011, he was awarded a 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the country’s highest teaching award."
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With 'Trinity Title Talks', the John W. Graham Library seeks to showcase the published work of Trinity College Fellows, and introduce the Fellows and their work to the wider College and University community. 
Admission to the talk is free, but registration is required. Copies of Arrival: The Story of CanLit can be purchased at the event through the University of Toronto Bookstore. A reception will follow the lecture in the Trinity College Combination Room.

Trinity Title Talks: Nick Mount

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