But don’t just take our word for it. As Jennifer Miller of the Whistler Question writes today, Mel Hurtig, Canada’s prolific author, political activist and former bookseller and publisher, says he’s learned in his 76 years that “the most interesting people are people who read a lot.”
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Hurtig is set to deliver the keynote address at the seventh annual Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, which takes place Sept. 12 and 13. He said he’ll talk about his latest book, The Truth About Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About Our Country.
After his talk at the Whistler festival, he’ll take questions from authors on how to prepare a manuscript, decide which publishers to send it to, and provide other tips, he said.
