Award-winning Vancouver author Timothy Taylor will return to Sechelt for a reading Saturday, Oct. 11.
Many will remember the vivid and intimate views of gourmet food and the restaurant business at the heart of his celebrated first novel, Stanley Park. Now Taylor has published Foodville: Biting Dispatches from a Food-Obsessed City, described as both a “culinary confessional” and a satiric exploration of our fashionable obsession with food.
These are popular subjects, but readers are drawn to Taylor mainly by the brilliance of his writing — always urban and hip as well as intelligent, stylistically precise and compelling.
Stanley Park (2001) was short-listed for the Giller, the Writers’ Trust Prize and other prestigious awards. Silent Cruise (2002) is a collection of prize-winning short stories, and Story House (2006) and The Blue Light Project (2011) have been best-selling and critically-acclaimed novels.
Always an engaging speaker, Taylor will read at 8 p.m. next Saturday at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. Admission is by donation, courtesy of the Canada Council and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.
