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Wednesday, September 30 at 8pm The Brickhouse, 730 Main Street Join us tomorrow night for the launch of CABIN FEVER + a birthday party celebrating 20 years of literary journalism at the Banff Centre . About the anthology: CABIN FEVER offers the finest creative non-fiction written by participants from the past six years. CABIN FEVER: THE BEST NEW CANADIAN NON-FICTION Edited by Moira Farr and Ian Pearson; introduction by Marni Jackson Contributors: *Taras Grescoe *Jeff Warren *Megan Williams *Bill Reynolds *Charlotte Gill *John Vigna *Margaret Webb *Jaspreet Singh *Jeremy Klaszus *Deborah Ostrovsky *Jonathan Garfinkel *Penney Kome *Andrew Westoll Published by Thomas Allen More: In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the Literary Journalism program at the Banff Centre, CABIN FEVER presents a selection of the finest creative non-fiction written by participants from the past six years. This anthology includes essays on a strikingly original and global range of topics by some of the best non-fiction writers in the country. Taras Grescoe goes in search of "pure" absinthe; Jeff Warren examines the way whales think; Megan Williams takes driving lessons in Rome; Bell Reynolds writes about the joys and dangers of riding a bicycle; Charlotte Gill gives us the dirt on her eighteen years as a tree planter; John Vigna confronts his relationship with a troubled brother; Margaret Webb takes a sexy road trip to find oysters; Jaspreet Singh ruminates on life in Kashmir in the age of plutonium; Jeremy Klaszus gets to know his grandfather, a former Hitler Youth who is obsessed with Google Maps; Deborah Ostrovsky explores bilingualism and the "grammar of relationships" after she marries into a Quebecois family; Jonathan Garfinkel goes to Israel to find a house occupied by an Arab and a Jew; Penney Kome writes about a family friend in Chicago who helped invent the atomic bomb; and Andrew Westoll gives up love in order to hunt for a rare frog in Suriname. Unique, engaging and enriching, Cabin Fever is a testament to the literary talents of each individual and a tribute to the longevity and excellence of The Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program over the past twenty years. Cabin Fever Edited by Moira Farr and Ian Pearson Introduction by Marni Jackson Thomas Allen Publishers ISBN: 978-0-88762-476-6 $24.95 *Special thanks to our onsite bookseller, Duthie Books.

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