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Ken McGoogan: December 2014
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Thursday, December 18, 2014. The ROM launches a 3-year, cross-country, Franklin celebration. During a panel discussion earlier tonight on the Franklin expedition, an event that drew more than 600 people to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Harris said he was equally exhilarated when he got into the water and began investigating the find. The event kicked off a three-year Franklin Outreach Project led by the R...
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Ken McGoogan: Rachel Dolezal inspires renewed call for a book-world revolution
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Thursday, June 18, 2015. Rachel Dolezal inspires renewed call for a book-world revolution. Some of my writer-friends are (rightly) irritated that Rachel Dolezal "admitted" to indulging. In "creative nonfiction." She lied, damn it. Writers of creative nonfiction tell the truth. But Dolezal's "admission" reminds me of why, a few years back, writing in the Globe and Mail. Our Hero called for a book-world revolution.
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Ken McGoogan: June 2015
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Tuesday, June 23, 2015. When will Franklin searchers discover that dead body on Erebus? The next step in searching the Erebus. According to Parks Canada's chief underwater archaeologist, is "to start exploring the inside in more depth, because that is where 97% of the artifacts are, where all the information that is going to tell us what happened is going to be.” Quoted in the digital magazine Tabaret. Alas, this well...
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Ken McGoogan: July 2015
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Friday, July 17, 2015. Writing a book is tough work . . . but someone has to do it? Here we see the Ocean Endeavour. Come September 5, we'll board that vessel in Kugluktuk (Coppermine) and sail east through the Northwest Passage. Before we head out on that voyage, we'll spend two weeks in Halifax at University of King's College, where I'll do some teaching in Canada's first MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. Differen...
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Ken McGoogan: VIDEOS
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . SAILING IN THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE. . . 1 Our hero visits Beechey Island. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? 2 And follows in the wake of Elisha Kent Kane. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? BACK IN THE DAY . . . Say Goodbye to John Steinbeck? Some years back, when I was writing songs and fronting a band (Ken McGoogan and the Immoral Minority), an elected government official began lobbying to ban Of Mice and Men. With a Canadian ...
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Ken McGoogan: May 2015
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Sunday, May 24, 2015. Hats off to the Irish! And to the witty genius who led the charge . . . . Know that I hate to quote myself. But in Celtic Lightning. While tracing Canada’s Scottish and Irish roots, I write of how an “. LGBT literature springs from a more closeted tradition. Friday, May 22, 2015. Explorer John Rae turns up in latest Ripcord Adventure Journal. The illustration above, found as a double-truck on pag...
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Ken McGoogan: Halifax gets a dazzling library to go with a ground-breaking MFA
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Sunday, August 2, 2015. Halifax gets a dazzling library to go with a ground-breaking MFA. Your new central library really is spectacular. It wasn't here when I visited last August. I'm especially. Excited to see the Paul O'Regan Hall, in which, on Nov. 18, I will present my new book, Celtic Lightning: How the Scots and the Irish Created a Canadian Nation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So were less than one week ...
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Ken McGoogan: August 2015
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Celtic Lightning strikes author in hardcover, renders him shameless. The map, called A Celtic Perspective,. Is by Winnipeg designer Dawn Huck. We are talking gorgeous. See photo adjacent. Okay, okay. I won't go on. On September 22, Celtic Lightning. Hits the bookstores. Subtitle: How the Scots and the Irish Created a Canadian Nation. Street. - Oct. 1, Toronto launch. Sunday, August 2, 2015.
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Ken McGoogan: ARCTIC
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . THE FATAL PASSAGE QUARTET. The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin. HarperCollins Canada, Bantam/ Transworld/Bantam U.K., Carroll and Graf U.S., 2001. Fatal Passage tells the story of John Rae. Delightful reading.”. Andrea Barrett
“. Compulsively readable . . . ”. 8220; . . one of the most important books written on Canadian history in recent years”. The Amazing Advent...
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Ken McGoogan: Writing a book is tough work . . . but someone has to do it?
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160; Ken McGoogan. 160; Surfaces at your invitation . . . . Friday, July 17, 2015. Writing a book is tough work . . . but someone has to do it? Here we see the Ocean Endeavour. Come September 5, we'll board that vessel in Kugluktuk (Coppermine) and sail east through the Northwest Passage. Before we head out on that voyage, we'll spend two weeks in Halifax at University of King's College, where I'll do some teaching in Canada's first MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. Differen...