{"id":3410,"date":"2010-12-01T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-12-01T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T19:51:39","slug":"writers-words-steven-heighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/writers-words-steven-heighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer’s Words: Steven Heighton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Heighton<\/a> joined us in the Great Books Marquee at 2:45. He read from his new book Every Lost Country<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>It was my first time at The Word On The Street Toronto and, as I wandered around\u00a0before and after my\u00a0event,\u00a0it struck me that the festival showcases Toronto at its\u00a0best:\u00a0warm clear\u00a0September weather,\u00a0multicultural crowds and music and street food,\u00a0the general celebration of the arts and,\u00a0specifically, of writers in\u00a0their\u00a0full diversity,\u00a0from spoken word poets to historical novelists.\u00a0\u00a0I’m a strong believer in hybrid vigour and\u00a0I could feel it there.\u00a0 The feeling energized me\u00a0while I read at the Great Books Marquee — and what\u00a0I liked\u00a0about reading in a tent, with its\u00a0negligible walls and open front, is that I didn’t feel\u00a0separated from\u00a0the\u00a0many other events taking place.\u00a0 Again, the collective energy of the fest, like the music drifting in from the bandstand,\u00a0seemed to permeate\u00a0each individual event.\u00a0\u00a0We were all\u00a0drawing on each other — writers, musicians,\u00a0audiences, the guys selling baked yams with butter and brown sugar.\u00a0I loved it.<\/p>\n

–Steven Heighton<\/p>\n

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About his book: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A doctor and his daughter travel to Nepal to join a climbing expedition. As they sit on the border between China and Nepal, a group of Tibetan refugees are seen fleeing from Chinese soldiers. When shooting starts, the doctor rushes toward the ensuing melee, ignoring the objections of the expedition leader,\u00a0who doesn\u2019t want to get involved. \u00a0When is it acceptable to be a bystander, and when do life and loyalty demand more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Heighton joined us in the Great Books Marquee at 2:45. He read from his new book Every Lost Country. ———————————————————————————————————————————– It was my first time at The Word On The Street Toronto and, as I wandered around\u00a0before and after my\u00a0event,\u00a0it struck me that the festival showcases Toronto at its\u00a0best:\u00a0warm clear\u00a0September weather,\u00a0multicultural crowds and music […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410"}],"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=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}