Pop et Frye

Come discover pop culture in literature with the help of local experts. Feed your imagination and POP your culture!

You have suggestions for Pop et Frye activities in 2010 or 2011? Please let us know:  info@frye.ca

Friend or Foe: The Book and New Technology (In French)
Our 2nd Pop & Frye of the season entitled “Friend or Foe: The Book and New Technology” will explore the issue through a short presentation followed by a debate lead by David Lonergan (professor and literary critic) with Serge Patrice Thibodeau (Executive Director and Literary Director for les Éditions Perce-Neige) and Samuel LeBlanc (avid reader and new technologies columnist with Radio-Canada).

Tuesday, March 9th at 7:00 pm
Navigator’s Pub (191 Robinson Court, Moncton)

Dead or Alive: The Perils of Biographies with Harvey Sawler (English)
Harvey Sawler, a Canadian Tourism expert and emerging writer will chat about his experiences in writing biographies, including his most recent profile of former Premier Frank McKenna (2009, Douglas & MacIntyre).

April 8th, 2010 at 7 pm, Location TBA

The Players with Margaret Sweatman (English) 
February 6th, 2010 at 2 pm, Chapters, Dieppe

Sly, provocative and ingeniously funny, Margaret Sweatman’s prose explores the deep well of human motivation, how instinct trumps reason when survival is in question.  (Goose Lane Editions)

If you liked Douglas Glover’s Elle, Sally Armstrong’s The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor or Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes, you are going to like this novel. All four books transport you to another time and place, but all provide you with real characters that live and breathe in your imagination and feel oddly contemporary.

You can also get to know her better by dropping by her website.

Missed the last Pop & Frye? Watch this video of Margaret Sweatman reading from The Players.