Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
When Words and Science Meet
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Stefan Merrrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting is a touching and informative portrayal of the destructive power of Alzheimer’s disease. In Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam depicts a sometimes shockingly realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today's medical profession. They talk about their science-infused novels with Natasha Mitchell.

Panel  |  Science & Environment, Fiction
Participants
Stefan Merrill Block, Vincent Lam, Natasha Mitchell (facilitator)

When
Friday, May 23 2008
13:00 - 14:00

Where
Sydney Theatre, Richard Wherrett Studio
22 Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
$15/$10

Bookings
9250 1988
www.sydneytheatre.org.au

Schedule
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VINCENT LAM (INTERNATIONAL)Lam, Vincent
Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. He studied medicine in Toronto, where he is now an emergency physician.

His debut, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, was awarded the Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award for fiction. A collection of mature and intricate stories, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures holds in delicate and skillful tension black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today's medical profession.

Vincent Lam’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

www.vincentlam.ca

also appearing at...
193: The Big Reading
204: Vincent Lam in Conversation

STEFAN MERRILL BLOCK (INTERNATIONAL)Block, Stefan Merill
Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas and graduated from Washington University in St Louis in 2004. Block is 25 years old and lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Story of Forgetting is his first novel.

www.stefanmerrillblock.com

also appearing at...
193: The Big Reading
217: Memory
278: Stefan Merrill Block in Conversation

NATASHA MITCHELL (LOCAL)
Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning science journalist, and presenter and producer of All in the Mind on ABC Radio National. She interviews authors and thinkers worldwide on themes linking the mind, brain, human behaviour and beyond.

also appearing at...
87: Courage
130: Blubberland