Ian Brown spins heartache into a dazzling tour de force

That’s what they call a tour de force. Wise, witty, modulated, informative, entertaining: take your pick. Or, no, put it this way: as a speaker, Ian Brown is in the same league as Stephen Lewis. We’re talking eloquence. Yes, I mean dazzling. Brown kicked off a lecture series called Journalism in the Public Square at…

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Ian Brown brings his Boy in the Moon to Halifax

Friday brings wunderkind Ian Brown to the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. He’ll give a public reading here at the University of King’s College from his bestseller The Boy in the Moon. That event will be live-streamed at 7 p.m. Brown will also engage with students in the program. Meanwhile, mentoring writers Lorri Neilsen-Glenn, David…

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