Talking “Truth, Lies and Nonfiction”

In his talk, “Truth, Lies and Nonfiction,” at The University Club of Toronto on January 29, 2009, Stephen Kimber, an award-winning author and the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College, explored this shifting literary landscape – from Dafoe’s Journal of the Plague Year to the latest fake Holocaust memoir/Oprah controversy — and explained why the truth still matters.

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  STEPHEN KIMBER, the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of one novel -- Reparations -- and eight non-fiction books.