To Sleep, To Dream: Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey and Heidi Reitmaier

6:00pm

Saturday, October 31

45 mins

What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For award-winning UK author Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, her latest memoir, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping, is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive. Pull up a pillow; this conversation promises not to be a snooze.

Interviewer: Heidi Reitmaier

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Interviewer: Heidi Reitmaier

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Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey is the author of three novels; Dear Thief, All Is Song and The Wilderness, which won the Betty Trask Prize. Her books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize, as well as longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize. She lives in Bath, UK, and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.

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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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