Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives
Arts:Books
Writers Off the Page: Jim Harrison - Part One: “You’ve Made Quite a Living From Your Fibs”
Works by Jim Harrison
The Road Home
Legends of the Fall
Dalva
True North
Works about Jim Harrison
Off to the Side: a Memoir
Jim Harrison, the Art of Fiction, No. 104 (Paris Review article, summer 1988)
Jim Harrison, the Mozart of the Prairies (New Yorker article, March 2016)
Other Related Books or Materials
The Raw and the Cooked: Cooking Your Life by Jim Harrison (Esquire article, June 1991)
Wallace Stevens: poems
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
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Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
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