{"id":2493,"date":"2014-09-18T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:28:50","slug":"the-word-on-the-street-in-conversation-with-great-canadian-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/the-word-on-the-street-in-conversation-with-great-canadian-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word On The Street in Conversation with Great Canadian Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the festival\u2019s 25th anniversary this Sunday, September 21st, The Word On the Street presents a series of pre-festival interviews with bestselling authors. Enjoy their reflections on 25 amazing years of celebrating reading!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106282647\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"In Conversation with Craig Davidson\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We sat down with <em>The Troop <\/em>author <strong>Craig Davidson<\/strong>, aka Nick Cutter, to discuss his inspirations, approach to storytelling, and the new projects he has in the works.\u00a0<em>The Troop<\/em> is one of the books featured in the Sculpting New Reads program.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106385262\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"In Conversation with Robert Rotenberg\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re pleased to welcome <em>Stranglehold<\/em> author <strong>Robert Rotenberg<\/strong> to the Amazon.ca Bestsellers Stage at 3:00 PM. In this\u00a0video Rotenberg discusses the insight\u00a0his law experience brings to his work, and the valuable role writers of fiction play in capturing places in time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106490097\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"In Conversation with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Story is a grand lie we tell about what living on the planet is.&#8221; <strong>Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer<\/strong> discusses breaching the contract with realism in her writing. Kuitenbrouwer will be appearing at both the Amazon.ca Bestsellers Stage at 12:00 PM, and the Wordshop Marquee at 2:00 PM.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Stay tuned for more fascinating author interviews this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the festival\u2019s 25th anniversary this Sunday, September 21st, The Word On the Street presents a series of pre-festival interviews with bestselling authors. Enjoy their reflections on 25 amazing years of celebrating reading! We sat down with The Troop author Craig Davidson, aka Nick Cutter, to discuss his inspirations, approach to storytelling, and the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/the-word-on-the-street-in-conversation-with-great-canadian-authors\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}