Memoirs for a Generation: Madhur Anand & Maria Tumarkin

Maria Tumarkin, Madhur Anand and Heidi Reitmaier

Memoirs for a Generation: Madhur Anand & Maria Tumarkin

Maria Tumarkin, Madhur Anand and Heidi Reitmaier

4:30pm

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

60 mins

Madhur Anand and Maria Tumarkin present the year’s most innovative and inventive memoirs, with their respective new titles: This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves and Axiomatic. The authors will discuss the true and intimate stories that inspired their work, including communities in crisis and the exponential effects of multigenerational trauma. Dive deep into these wondrously elegant works, by hearing from the unforgettable voices that penned them.

Interviewer: Heidi Reitmaier

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Madhur Anand and Maria Tumarkin present the year’s most innovative and inventive memoirs, with their respective new titles: This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves and Axiomatic. The authors will discuss the true and intimate stories that inspired their work, including communities in crisis and the exponential effects of multigenerational trauma. Dive deep into these wondrously elegant works, by hearing from the unforgettable voices that penned them.

Interviewer: Heidi Reitmaier

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Featured Authors

Maria Tumarkin
Maria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three previous books of ideas Traumascapes, Courage, and Otherland, all of which received critical acclaim in Australia, where she lives. Her most recent work, Axiomatic, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award. Tumarkin collaborates with visual artists, audio creatives, psychologists, and historians, and holds a PhD in cultural history from the University of Melbourne, where she teaches in the creative writing program.

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Madhur Anand
Dr. Madhur Anand is the author of the experimental memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, the poetry collection A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes and several other literary works published in national and international literary magazines. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.

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Heidi Reitmaier
Heidi Reitmaier is currently the executive director of myseum, a museum that showcases history, culture and the architecture of Toronto. She has held leadership roles at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and has worked as a curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Art London. She produced radio for the BBC, has written for Art Monthly, Art Forum and Tate Magazine, and she loves to read everyday.

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4:30pm

Tuesday, October 27

60 mins

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