Linden MacIntyre at the Confederation Centre
Linden MacIntyre, distinguished Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and novelist, will read from his new novel, Why Men Lie, on Wednesday, April 11 at 7:30 pm, in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.
MacIntyre has won nine Gemini Awards, an International Emmy, an ACTRA Award, and numerous other honours for his writing and journalistic excellence. Born in Newfoundland, and raised in Cape Breton, MacIntyre began his career in 1964 with The Halifax Chronicle Herald as a parliamentary bureau reporter. He joined the CBC in 1976. In 1990 he was appointed co host of The Fifth Estate. For three decades, he has produced documentaries and stories from all over the world.
His first novel, The Long Stretch, was published in 1999, and his 2006 memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non Fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non Fiction. The Bishop's Man, his second novel, won the 2009 Giller Prize for fiction.
In Why Men Lie, Effie MacAskill Gillis is confident she knows the answer. She learned the hard way-from a war damaged father and a troubled brother who became a priest, through failed marriages and doomed relationships with weak and needy men. Men lie to satisfy the needs they never can articulate: for sex, love, and reassurance. Now in middle age, she feels immunized against the damage men can do and enjoys hard won independence. But a chance encounter with a man on a subway platform changes everything.
MacIntyre's reading is sponsored by the UPEI English department and co-hosted by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, with support from The Canada Council for the Arts. A reception and book signing will follow, and admission is free.
